Rizzo v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1992
10 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 Bentivoglio v. Ralston · Downey v. Weston · 2 Pa. Commw. 462 - Corder v. Civil Service Commission · A. P. Weaver & Sons v. Sanitary Water Board · Williams v. Civil Service Commission
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Every person in the classified service shall be furnished with written notice of any personnel action taken with respect to him pursuant to the provisions of the act. Such notice ... shall be furnished within the limits prescribed by the rules of the commission. The notice shall in the case of the permanent separation ... or demotion of a regular employe set forth the reason or reasons for the action.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This means that any ‘personnel action’ carried out by the Commonwealth is to be scrutinized in the light of such criteria, as has the party failed to properly execute his duties, or has he done an act which hampers or frustrates the execution of same. The criteria must be job-related and in some rational and logical manner touch upon competency and ability.”
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.