Commonwealth v. Bley’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently March 2006
4 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 205 Pa. Super. 117 - Herman v. Kandrat Coal Co. · 7 Pa. Commw. 323 - Barr v. B & B CAMPER SALES · Hollen v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Mahoning Township Supervisors · Dydo v. Commonwealth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The term `employe', as used in this act, is declared to be synonymous with servant, and includes all natural persons who perform services, except agricultural services or domestic services performed in a private home for another for a valuable consideration, exclusive of persons whose employment is casual in character and not in the regular course of the business of the employer and exclusive of persons to whom articles or materials are given out to be made up, cleaned, washed, altered, ornamented, finished, or repaired, or adapted for sale, in the worker's own home, or on other premises not under the control or management of the employer."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shall apply to disabilities and deaths caused by occupational disease as defined in this Act, resulting from employment within this Commonwealth, irrespective of the place where the contract of hiring was made. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“volunteer firemen do not qualify as employees as that term is defined within [`the Act'] . . . .”
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.