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116 Pa. Commw. 327 - Scott v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis

1988

Citation profile

21
cited by 21 later decisions
1
states following
April 2017
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2017

2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

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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

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 1981 (Civil Rights Act of 1866) · 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Civil Rights Act of 1871 / Section 1983 (Ku Klux Klan Act))

Relies on Monell v. Department of Social Services of City of New York · Martinez v. California · National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · Mascaro v. Youth Study Center · Estate of Bailey Oare Cr v. County of York G

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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “In any action against a local agency or employee thereof for damages on account of an injury caused by the act of the employee in which it is judicially determined that the act of the employee caused the injury and that such act constituted ... willful misconduct, the [official immunity] provisions ... shall not apply.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “in the case at bar, Appellants have not pled any facts to suggest that any of the Appellees had notice of [the teacher's] dangerous proclivities.”
    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.