Harmar Coal Co. v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 1992
10 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 9 Pa. Commw. 176 - Universal Cyclops Steel Corp. v. Krawczynski · Weidner v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Bethlehem Mines Corp. · Garden Coal Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In any contested case where the insurer has contested liability in whole or in part, the employe ... in whose favor the matter at issue has been finally determined shall be. awarded, . in addition to the award for compensation, a . reasonable sum for costs incurred for attorney’s fee . . .; Provided, That cost for attorney fees may be excluded when a reasonable basis for the contest has been established. . . .”
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.