2006 Pa. Super. 293 - Hirsch v. EPL Technologies, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2025
19 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 Com., Dept. of Transp. v. O'CONNELL · Millili v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing · Commonwealth v. Lord · Broussard v. Zoning Board of Adjustment of City of Pittsburgh · Allegheny County v. Monzo
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[D]ecisions of the Court of Common Pleas are not binding precedent”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently articulated the purpose of the WPCL as follows: Pennsylvania enacted the WPCL to provide a vehicle for employees to enforce payment of their wages and compensation held by their employers. The underlying purpose of the WPCL is to remove some of the obstacles employees face in litigation by providing them with a statutory remedy when an employer breaches its contractual obligation to pay wages. The WPCL does not create an employee’s substantive right to compensation; rather, it only establishes an employee’s right to enforce payment of wages and compensation to which an employee is otherwise entitled by the terms of an agreement. The WPCL defines “employer” as “every person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, receiver or other officer of a court of this Commonwealth and any agent or officer of any of the above-mentioned classes employing any person in this Commonwealth.” 43 P.S. § 260.2a. To hold an “agent or officer” personally liable for unpaid wages, evidence of an active role in decision making is required. •”
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.