Commonwealth v. Rizzo’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2007
6 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
Applies 29 U.S.C. § 160 (§ 10 of the National Labor Relations Act)
Relies on Local Lodge No 1424 v. National Labor Relations Board · Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board v. State College Area School District · Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board v. State College Area School District · Rizzo v. Commonwealth · City of Sharon v. Rose of Sharon Lodge No. 3
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is doubtless true that §10(b) does not' prevent all use of evidence relating to events transpiring more than six months before the .- filing and service of an unfair labor practice charge. However, in applying rules of evidence as to the admissibility of past events, due regard for the purposes of §10(b) requires that two different kinds of situations be distinguished. The first is one where occurrences-within the six-month limitations period in arid of themselves may constitute, as a substantive matter, unfair labor practices. There, earlier events may be utilized to shed light on the true character of matters occurring within the limitations period; and for that purpose §10(b) ordinarily does not bar such evidentiary use of anterior events. The second situation is that ; where conduct occurring within the limitations period can be charged to be an unfair labor , practice only through- reliance on an earlier unfair labor practice. There the use of the earlier unfair labor practice is not merely ‘ evidentiary,’ since it does not simply lay bare a putative current unfair labor practice. Bather, it serves to cloak with illegality that which was otherwise lawful. And where a complaint based upon that earlier event is time-barred, to pero . mit the event itself to be so used in effect re-.suits in reviving a legally defunct' unfair labor practice.”
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.