137 Pa. Super. 139 - Malicks' Petition’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2017
13 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 Farmers National Bank & Trust Co. v. Berks County Real Estate Co. · Swartz v. Carlisle Borough · Grim v. Weissenberg School District · City of Chester v. Black · Donley v. City of Pittsburgh
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is settled law in Pennsylvania that the Legislature has the power to legislate retrospectively on all matters, not penal, nor in violation of contracts, not expressly forbidden by the Constitution. Weister v. Hade, 52 Pa. 474 ; Grim v. School District, 57 Pa. 433 ; Hawkins v. Com., 76 Pa. 15 .””
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.