Keitt v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently January 1993
23 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 10 Pa. Commw. 375 - ROSS v. KEITT
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . [Legislative awareness that there may be litigation properly initiated in the Court of Common Pleas in which* by third party proceedings, the Commonwealth, although not an indispensable party, may conceivably be joined, in which cases the jurisdiction of the Court of Common Pleas should not be ousted simply because such third party procedure was invoked. In such cases, our jurisdiction is not found in Section 401, . . . rather our role is that of appellate review under Section 402 . . . With respect to actions or proceedings against the Commonwealth, we view Section 401 as conferring exclusive original jurisdiction in this court where the Commonwealth is an original party defendant or is determined to be an indispensable party defendant. . . . [Keitt v. Ross, 17 Pa.Cmwlth. at 189, 331 A.2d at 584]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) The Commonwealth Court shall have original jurisdiction of: (1) All civil actions or proceedings against the Commonwealth or any officer thereof, acting in his official capacity ... (b) The jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Court under this section shall be exclusive ... except with respect to actions or proceedings by the Commonwealth or any officer thereof .. . where jurisdiction of the Court shall be concurrent with the several Courts of Common Pleas.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Commonwealth Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of appeals from final orders of the Court of Common Pleas in any of the following cases ...; (1) All civil actions or proceedings to which the Commonwealth or any officer thereof ... is a party ....”
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.