Harbaugh v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably 138 Pa. Commw. 113 - City of Philadelphia v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (1991), 152 Pa. Commw. 530 - Township of Upper Saucon v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (1993)
34 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 Estate of McGovern v. Commonwealth, State Employees' Retirement Board · Leechburg Area School District v. Dale · St. Joseph's Hospital v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board · 56 Pa. Commw. 462 - Commonwealth v. Stairways, Inc.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Public employers, their agents or representatives are prohibited from: (1) Interfering, restraining or coercing employes in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Article IV of this act. (3) Discriminating in regard to hire or tenure of employment or any term or condition of employment to encourage or discourage membership in any employe organization. (5) Refusing to bargain collectively in good faith with an employe representative which is the exclusive representative of employes in an appropriate unit, including but not limited to the discussing of grievances with the exclusive representative. (6) Refusing to reduce a collective bargaining agreement to writing and sign such an agreement. (7) Violating any of the rules and regulations established by the board regulating the conduct of representation elections. (9) Refusing to comply with the requirements of ‘meet and discuss.'”
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.