Wallace v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
October 1987
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Biello v. Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board · McCoy v. Commonwealth · McCoy v. Liquor Control Board
Most-quoted passages
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“[The] Secretary of Public Welfare, and the Commissioner of Mental Health are officers of the Commonwealth charged with administration of policy on a state-wide basis. We therefore have jurisdiction of the suits against these defendants____ Although the Superintendent and trustees of [the] State Hospital may well be held to be high public officials ... we lack jurisdiction to decide this question because they do not have state-wide policymaking authority and are not therefore ‘officers’ within the meaning of Section [761(a)(1)].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Rhines v. Herzel · Fawber v. Cohen
How this case has been treated — in progress
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