Bleilevens v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Commonwealth, Unemployment Compensation Board of Review v. Ceja (1981), A.Y. v. Commonwealth Department of Public Welfare, Allegheny County Children & Youth Services (1994)
28 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 A. P. Weaver & Sons v. Sanitary Water Board · Chalk Appeal · SKF Industries, Inc. v. Cody · Giordano v. Ralph J. Bianco, 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘[t]he Hearsay Rule is not a technical rule of evidence but a basic, vital and fundamental rule of law which ought to be followed by administrative agencies at those points in their hearings when facts crucial to the issue are sought to be placed upon the record.’ ... Accordingly, interpreting an identical rule applicable to Commonwealth agency adjudications, this Court has held: (1) Hearsay evidence, properly objected to, is not competent evidence to support a finding [in an administrative hearing].... (2) Hearsay evidence, admitted without objection, will be given its natural probative effect and may support a finding of the [hearing officer], if it is corroborated by any competent evidence in the record, but a finding of fact based solely on hearsay will not stand.”
2 later decisions 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.