Hamberger v. Marcus’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently March 1986 · most notably Consumer Party of Pennsylvania v. Com. (1986), 150 Pa. Super. 469 - Bell v. Roberts (1942)
3 federal appellate · 4 district · 29 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 Commonwealth ex rel. Wolfe v. Butler · Seiders's Appeal · Hutchinson & Co. v. Gormley
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It was the obvious purpose of this act to enable laborers and persons in public or private employment to receive from their employers compensation for their personal services without hindrance from their creditors. The miner who is paid by the ton, the mechanic who is paid by the piece, and the clerk or salesman who is paid by commissions on his sales, are as much within its protection as if they were paid by the day, week, month, or year. A wholesale merchant employs two persons to travel over the country and obtain from the retail dealers orders for his goods. To one of them he pays a certain sum per month, and to the other he pays commissions on the amount of orders taken. These commissions are as clearly compensation of the employé for personal services in the interest and for the benefit of the employer as the monthly stipend is. It is a narrow construction of the statute which allows the creditors of one employé to attach in the hands of the employer the commissions which constitute his compensation for personal services and exempts from attachment in the hands of the same employer the compensation of another employé for like services. A construction which admits of such results is not warranted by a mere difference in the method of compensation. In AVentroth’s Appeal, 3 AVkly. Notes Gas. 248, the question was whether the claimant was a laborer within the meaning of the act of April 9, 1872 (P. B. 47), and this court said': ‘If he was a laborer, it must be conceded tha”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Fink
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.