Walker v. HEAVEY’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2018
8 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 Morris v. Yough Coal & Supply Co. · Mohler v. COOK · Krasznay v. Milton Ross Metals Co. · McCafferty v. Masten Transportation, Inc. · Walker v. Aluminum Co. of America
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No rigid rule can be laid down as to the amount or character of evidence necessary to show dependency, and each case must be controlled by its own circumstances. Morris v. Yough Coal & Supply Co. , 266 Pa. 216 , 109 A. 914 [ (1920) ]. ' While dependency must be actual [,] it is not necessary that it be exclusive; it must be real but need not be total .... Dependency does not mean sole and exclusive support....' Walker v. Aluminum [ Co. ] of [ Am. ], 185 Pa.Super. 355 , 138 A.2d 197 [ (1958) ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“No compensation shall be payable under this section to a widow, unless she was living with her deceased husband at the time of his death or was then actually dependent upon him and receiving from him a substantial portion of her support. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“support must be defined in the terms of the living standards and circumstances of life of the individual involved.”
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.