Lucciola v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 1995
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 Horosko v. Mt. Pl't Twp. S. Dist · Ganaposki's Case · Buckner v. Hudspeth · Ambridge Borough School District's Board of School Directors v. Snyder · 201 Pa. Super. 375 - Johnson v. United School District Joint School Board
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]s a general proposition, ‘persistent’ is defined as ‘continuing’ or ‘constant.’ In particular application, persistency characterizes a violation of the school laws by a professional employee where the violation occurs either as a ■series of individual incidents, or as one incident carried on for a substantial period of time. (Citations omitted.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“The only valid causes for termination of a contract heretofore and hereafter entered into with a professional employe shall be immorality, incompetency, intemperance, cruelty, persistent negligence, mental derangement . . . persistent and willful violation of the school laws of this Commonwealth on the part of the professional employe. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“presence of intention, and at least some power of choice.”
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.