Stanley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 2008
4 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 Kratzer v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare · Dempsey v. Commonwealth · Martin v. Commonwealth · 73 Pa. Commw. 169 - Juras v. Commonwealth · 100 Pa. Commw. 401 - Goughenour 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there is no constitutional right to receive public assistance ... a person who is medically needy is statutorily eligible for MA. This Court has recognized our legislature’s legitimate interest in allocating undeniably scarce social welfare resources to those considered most needy.... The burden of proving eligibility for assistance rests with the appli cant.... (Citations and footnote omitted).”
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.