McDermott v. Biddle

How courts have described this case

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

• for any principle of law expressed in a decision of this Court to be considered precedent, it must command a majority of judges voting both as to disposition and principle of law expressed
• for any principle of law expressed in a decision of this Court to be considered precedent, it must command a majority of judges voting both as to disposition and principle of law expressed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

13 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Cooper
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-04-08· cited 84×
• Fillmore v. Hill
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-09-29· cited 77×
• Commonwealth v. Davis
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2011-02-23· cited 72×
• Gaudio v. Ford Motor Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-06-01· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Rice
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-02-20· cited 50×
• Doe v. Raezer
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-07-18· cited 27×
• Harrisburg School District v. Hickok
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-11-15· cited 25×
• McDermott v. Biddle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-04-12· cited 18×
• Reiter v. Manna
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-09-01· cited 9×
• Holliday v. Page
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-03-23· cited 4×
• Cipolone v. Port Authority Transit System of Allegheny County
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-11-15· cited 4×
• Williams v. Pennlake Realty Assoc.
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 1999-08-09
• Kit v. Mitchell
  Delaware County Court of Common Pleas· 2000-03-03

Cites

37 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• New York Times Co. v. Sullivan
  Supreme Court· 1964-03-09· cited 8,531×
• Bose Corp. v. Consumers Union of United States, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1984-04-30· cited 2,137×
• St. Amant v. Thompson
  Supreme Court· 1968-06-10· cited 2,076×
• Curtis Publishing Co. v. Butts
  Supreme Court· 1967-10-09· cited 1,899×
• Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co.
  Supreme Court· 1990-06-21· cited 1,770×
• Harte-Hanks Communications, Inc. v. Connaughton
  Supreme Court· 1989-06-22· cited 1,025×
• Pennekamp v. Florida
  Supreme Court· 1946-06-03· cited 529×
• Moure v. Raeuchle
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-02-21· cited 227×
• Coker v. SM Flickinger Co., Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-06-02· cited 222×
• Thompson v. City of Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1985-06-04· cited 206×
• Atkins v. Urban Redevelopment Authority
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-04-30· cited 129×
• Bolus v. United Penn Bank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-03-05· cited 122×
• Spang & Co. v. United States Steel Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-12· cited 108×
• Stewart v. Chernicky
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-05-27· cited 108×
• Mamalis v. Atlas Van Lines, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-06-28· cited 100×
• Thomas Merton Center v. Rockwell International Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-12-17· cited 97×
• Broxie v. Household Finance Company
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-04-28· cited 88×
• Gonzalez v. United States Steel Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-03-16· cited 84×
• Philadelphia Police Dept. v. Gray
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1993-11-03· cited 59×
• Curran v. Philadelphia Newspapers, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-01· cited 47×