141 Pa. Super. 44 - Pittsburgh v. Kane’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 1971
3 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.
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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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is time that people who enjoy special privileges at the hands of the General Assembly, whether they practice professions, such as lawyers, physicians, dentists, nurses, engineers, etc., or are engaged in a business regulated to some extent by statute, such as plumbers, bakers, barbers, etc., should understand and recognize that these privileges are not granted primarily for the benefit of the persons licensed or authorized to pursue said business or profession, etc., but for the benefit and well-being of the public, in order that it may be competently and properly served. That is the only constitutional ground for their enactment. Courts should not be astute to assist persons who mistake the purpose *Page 85 of these statutes and use them to the injury of the public rather than for its advantage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. (1971)“The dispute is really one between plumbers and steam fitters as to the right of the latter, who are lawfully engaged in the work of installing air conditioning units in buildings, to equip them with waste-pipes to carry away the condensed moisture collecting therein.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. (1971)“Safe waste pipes must not connect directly with any part of the plumbing system. Safe waste pipes must discharge over an open, water-supplied, publicly-placed, ordinarily-used sink, placed not more than three and one-half feet above the cellar floor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. (1971)
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.