Commonwealth v. Grant’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2009 · most notably Woods v. State Civil Service Commission (2006), 183 W. Va. 364 - State Ex Rel. Ashley v. Civil Service Commission for Deputy Sheriffs of Kanawha County (1990)
27 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 Zeber Appeal · 2 Pa. Commw. 462 - Corder v. Civil Service Commission · Williams v. Civil Service Commission · Gibbs v. Civil Service Commission · 5 Pa. Commw. 139 - Kramer v. City of Bethlehem
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For appellant to be dismissed, it was not necessary for him to be convicted of the crimes with which he was charged.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“No officer or employe of the Commonwealth shall discriminate against any person in recruitment, examination, appointment, training, promotion, retention or any other personnel action with respect to the classified service . . . because of race ... or other non-merit factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(3) misconduct amounting to violation of law, rules or lawful and reasonable departmental orders; (5) scandalous or disgraceful conduct while on or off duty which may bring the service of the Commonwealth into disrepute; or (6) similar substantial reasons.”
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.