Commonwealth v. BERGER’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission v. Sanders & Thomas, Inc. (1975), 231 Pa. Super. 531 - Byrne v. Kanig (1974)
3 federal appellate · 18 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 Robert F. Felte, Inc. v. White · Northwest'n Nat. Bk. v. Com'nw'lth. · International Milling Co. v. Hachmeister, Inc. · Palmgreen v. Palmer's Garage, Inc. · Foley Bros., Inc. v. Commonwealth
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““DPW knew that the floors involved were designed for apartment use, that they were being so constructed and that some changes and alterations were to be made so that they would be usable by the DPW. In fact, a plan for such alterations was drawn up but never submitted to the Bergers. The DPW decided instead to break the lease and sought to accomplish this result by preparing new plans as if only the shell of the building was involved, completely ignoring apartment walls, kitchens, bathrooms and closets.””
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.