Nardulli v. John Carlo, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• reversing the entry of a default judgment due to an attorney’s mistakes, stating that “errors of counsel which indicate an oversight rather than a deliberate decision not to defend, have been held to constitute sufficient legal justification to open a default judgment”
• failure to answer was based on a misunderstanding between counsel as distinguished from mere inadvertence or negligence, and, thus, lower court abused its discretion in refusing to open the judgment
• failure to answer was based on a misunderstanding between counsel as distinguished from mere inadvertence or negligence, and, thus, lower court abused its discretion in refusing to open the judgment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

9 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Womer v. Hilliker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-10-17· cited 196×
• Stroud v. Abington Memorial Hospital
  E.D. Pennsylvania· 2008-04-17· cited 58×
• Almes v. Burket
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-08-09· cited 16×
• Vorhauer v. Miller
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-03-04· cited 15×
• Beausang v. Bernotas
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-03-12· cited 6×
• Mahler v. Emrick
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1982-05-28· cited 6×
• Cione v. Skyline Corp.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-08-21· cited 2×
• Penn-Clair Construction Co. v. Eden Roc Country Club
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-09-21· cited 1×
• Czerniak v. Longshore
  Bucks County Court of Common Pleas· 2007-07-25· cited 1×

Cites

20 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• BALK v. Ford Motor Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-12-20· cited 179×
• Kraynick v. HERTZ
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-04-22· cited 140×
• Schutte v. Valley Bargain Center, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-06-29· cited 48×
• Goldstein v. Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-01-07· cited 41×
• Triolo v. Philadelphia Coca Cola Bottling Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1970-10-09· cited 39×
• Moyer v. Americana Mobile Homes, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-12-15· cited 37×
• Saint Vladimir Ukrainian Orthodox Church v. Preferred Risk Mutual Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-03-29· cited 30×
• Spilove v. Cross Transportation, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-11-16· cited 29×
• Slott v. Triad Distributors, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-09-23· cited 28×
• Britton v. Continental Mining & Smelting Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-11-20· cited 27×
• St. Joe Paper Co. v. Marc Box Co., Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-07· cited 26×
• Nevils v. Chernitsky
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-12-15· cited 25×
• Tice v. Nationwide Life Insurance
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 24×
• Ecumenical Enterprises, Inc. v. NADCO Construction, Inc.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-13· cited 24×
• AB v. Continental Imports
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-09-21· cited 20×
• Epstein v. Continental Bank & Trust Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-12-07· cited 18×
• Carrozza v. Girard Chevrolet Co.
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1963-04-18· cited 18×
• Westinghouse Credit Corp. v. Wenzel
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-13· cited 16×
• Seltzer v. Ashton Hall Nursing & Convalescent Home
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-03-24· cited 15×
• Greater Finance Company v. Harris
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1976-11-22· cited 5×