DeLuca v. READER’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently October 1997 · most notably 334 Pa. Super. 295 - Agriss v. Roadway Express, Inc. (1984), 340 Pa. Super. 253 - Gordon v. Lancaster Osteopathic Hospital Ass'n (1985)
15 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 Purcell v. Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. · General Motors Corp. v. Mendicki · Joftes v. Kaufman · Meyer v. Joint Council 53, International Brotherhood of Teamsters · 209 F. Supp. 866 - Bufalino v. Teller
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]otices of dismissal for cause which are contemplated by a collective bargaining agreement and which are published by the employer only to those with a legitimate interest in the subject matter may not be made the subject of an action in libel, regardless of whether the allegations of cause are true or false and regardless of the actual motive behind the dismissal.”
2 later decisions 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.