Commonwealth v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth, Department of Transportation v. J. W. Bishop & Co. · Baehr Bros. v. Commonwealth · Pennsylvania Ass'n of State Mental Hospital Physicians v. State Employees' Retirement Board · 104 Pa. Commw. 517 - Magill v. Commonwealth · 87 Pa. Commw. 98 - Inmates of B-Block v. Jeffes
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.
“Issues not raised in the lower court are waived and cannot be raised for the first time on appeal.”
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.