Clinton v. Giles’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2022
11 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Moure v. Raeuchle · In re Tinari · 441 Pa. Super. 281 - Johnston the Florist, Inc. v. TEDCO Construction Corp. · 326 Pa. Super. 14 - Daset Mining Corp. v. Industrial Fuels Corp. · Thompson v. Peck
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the issue raised involves the admissibility of evidence, we note that ‘Pennsylvania trial judges enjoy broad discretion regarding the admissibility of . . . evidence.’ In exercising that discretion, “[t]he threshold task of the trial judge ... is to determine whether the evidence is relevant. Once the trial judge determines the evidence is relevant, the further task of the judge is to balance the probative value of evidence against any prejudicial effect of that evidence. Since such balancing is a particular specialty of the trial judge, rulings upon admissibility are committed to the sound discretion of the trial court, and those rulings will not be overturned in the absence of an abuse of discretion.” (citations omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is fundamental that an action at law requires a person or entity which has the right to bring the action, and a person or entity against which the action can be maintained. By its very terms, an action at law implies the existence of legal parties; they may be natural or artificial persons, but they must be entities which the law recognizes as competent. A dead man cannot be a party to an action, and any such attempted proceeding is completely void and of no effect. This disposes of the further argument that the defect was cured by the amendment. There can be no amendment where there is nothing to amend.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A pedestrian who is under the influence of alcohol or any controlled substance to a degree which renders the pedestrian a hazard shall not walk or be upon a highway except on a sidewalk.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dragovits v. Lehr
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.