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← 147 PACOMMW 22 - Olon v. Commonwealth

Olon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1992

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
January 1996
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on County of Allegheny v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Ogontz Area Neighbors Ass'n · 117 Pa. Commw. 408 - City of Harrisburg v. Capitol Housing Corp.

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

  1. “which states that the local land use regulations are preempted by the project or by the agencies charged with constructing and administering prisons. Ogontz not only prohibits us from automatically conferring preemptive land use powers upon a Commonwealth agency but also rejects attributing preemptive land use powers by inference.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “acquire and hold title in the name of the agency to the property known as the Towne House, including the Annex thereto leased by the agency . . . and to make such arrangements as may be necessary to finance such acquisitions.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “refused to infer a legislative intent that the Commonwealth agency has preemptive land use powers, and thereby indicated that an explicit legislative statement is required to negate local zoning powers.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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