144 Pa. Super. 449 - Gordon v. Tomei’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Berberian v. Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital Ass'n (1959), 182 F. Supp. 608 - Highway Truck Drivers and Helpers Local 107 v. Cohen (1960)
8 federal appellate · 17 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 William Truax v. Mike Raich · Hitchman Coal & Coke Co. v. Mitchell · Rosenzweig v. Heller · Erdman v. Mitchell · Caskie v. Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co.
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * The principle is well established that in an action to recover damages for wrongful discharge from employment the defense that the claimant earned or could have earned a livelihood during the term of his discharge is an affirmative one, and the burden of proof rests upon the defendant.”
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.