Porter v. Karivalis’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Salerno · 425 Pa. Super. 228 - Laudig v. Laudig · Commonwealth v. Stern · 411 Pa. Super. 63 - Commonwealth v. Agnew · 342 Pa. Super. 422 - Swidzinski v. Schultz
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In all cases where debts are contracted for necessaries by either spouse for the support and maintenance of the family, it shall be lawful for the creditor in this case to institute suit against the husband and wife for the price of such necessaries and, after obtaining a judgment, have an execution against the spouse contracting the debt alone; and, if no property of that spouse is found, execution may be levied upon and satisfied out of the separate property of the other spouse.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the spouse who incurred the debt primarily liable and the nondebtor spouse only secondarily liable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.