Commonwealth, Richland Township v. Hellerman’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently November 1993
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 Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · 11 Pa. Commw. 420 - Bamash v. Zoning Board of Adjustment
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.
“It has been consistently held that matters not properly raised in, or considered by, the tribunal below cannot be considered on appeal, even though such matters involve constitutional questions. Indeed, the requirement that the trial court be given an opportunity to fully consider and rule on matters before those matters may be considered.by an appellate court is essential to the proper functioning of modern judicial machinery.”
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.