MacDonald v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 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 158 Pa. Super. 548 - Sturdevant Unemployment Compensation Case · 159 Pa. Super. 567 - Brilhart Unemployment Compensation Case · Shira v. Commonwealth · 190 Pa. Super. 582 - Bentz Unemployment Compensation Case · 160 Pa. Super. 452 - Clpasaddel Et Ux. v. Estis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““An employe shall be ineligible for compensation for any week— “ (b)i(l) In which his unemployment is due to voluntarily leaving work without cause of a necessitous and compelling nature... “(2) In which his or her unemployment is due to leaving work... (II) because of a marital, filial or other domestic obligation or circumstance....””
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.