Lightcap v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2011
7 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 Temple v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways · 96 Pa. Commw. 313 - Hartwell v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · 50 Pa. Commw. 130 - Trumpikas v. Commonwealth · Krug v. Commonwealth · Boughter v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any employe ... of a State mental hospital ... under the Department of Public Welfare, who is injured during the course of his employment by an act of ... any person confined in such institution ... shall be paid, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, his full salary, until the disability arising therefrom no longer prevents his return as an employe of such ... institution at a salary equal to that earned by him at the time of his injury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“guarantees that a qualified employee will not forfeit that leave time which would have been available to her had she not been absent from work because of an ... injury. In the case at bar, if Lightcap had not been injured, she would have been able to accumulate 45 days of annual leave....”
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.