Commonwealth v. Musser Forests, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the name by which clause is called not determi native as to whether it is a liquidated damages provision
• where treble damages based on sale price of Commonwealth trees destroyed compensated only for other benefits of trees, damages not penal
• nullum tempus “matter of important public policy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

45 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Commonwealth v. Eiland
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-03-16· cited 148×
• Yania v. Bigan
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-11-09· cited 102×
• Commonwealth v. EVANS
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-08-10· cited 96×
• Geisinger Clinic v. Di Cuccio
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-03· cited 83×
• Brinich v. Jencka
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-07-28· cited 77×
• Commonwealth, Department of Transportation v. J. W. Bishop & Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-21· cited 56×
• Pantuso Motors, Inc. v. Corestates Bank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-06-19· cited 55×
• Smith v. Wagner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-04-05· cited 54×
• Commonwealth v. Neff
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-03-20· cited 53×
• Com., Dept. of Transp. v. Mitchell
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-12-29· cited 41×
• Slaybaugh v. Newman
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-06-08· cited 37×
• Commonwealth ex rel. Lindsley v. Robinson
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-05-03· cited 35×
• Petula v. Mellody
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-11· cited 33×
• Otto v. American Mutual Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-06-18· cited 28×
• Laughlin v. Baltalden, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-03-24· cited 26×
• Commonwealth v. DeMoss
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1960-10-10· cited 25×
• School District v. Maryland Casualty Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-13· cited 25×
• Northampton County Area Community College v. Dow Chemical, U.S.A.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-11-07· cited 23×
• Holt's Cigar Co. v. 222 Liberty Associates
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-05-23· cited 23×
• Hanrahan v. Audubon Builders, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 23×

Cites

19 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Boyd v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1886-02-01· cited 3,820×
• United States Ex Rel. Marcus v. Hess
  Supreme Court· 1943-01-18· cited 1,062×
• Overnight Motor Transportation Co. v. Missel
  Supreme Court· 1942-06-08· cited 823×
• Stone v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1897-05-10· cited 194×
• United States v. Zucker
  Supreme Court· 1896-03-02· cited 99×
• William Goldman Theatres, Inc. v. Loew's, Inc.
  Third Circuit· 1945-08-02· cited 99×
• Byers v. Ward
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1951-11-13· cited 83×
• The United States v. The Saline Bank of Virginia, John Webster, and Others
  Supreme Court· 1828-03-10· cited 55×
• Gross v. Exeter Machine Works, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1923-04-30· cited 42×
• Keck v. Bieber
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1892-05-02· cited 39×
• March v. Allabough
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1883-10-01· cited 36×
• Rogers v. Hall
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1835-09-15· cited 34×
• Corry v. Pennsylvania Railroad
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1900-02-05· cited 27×
• Scranton Axle & Spring Co. v. Scranton Board of Trade
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1921-05-26· cited 18×
• Logan v. Pennsylvania R.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1890-02-17· cited 15×
• Drabant v. Cure
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1922-05-08· cited 14×
• Eckman v. Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1912-07-18· cited 13×
• Commonwealth v. Rohanna
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-07-20· cited 6×
• Kaiser v. Insurance Co. of North America
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1922-04-24· cited 6×