Schearer v. Reading’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably Vega v. BURGETTSTOWN BOROUGH. (1958), Soltis Appeal (1957)
25 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 United States Arant v. Lane · Nicholas v. United States · Detoro v. Pittston · Smith v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Carey v. Altoona
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“under the guise of abolishing his office was, in the face of the simultaneous creation of a new office having the same function but a different appellation, a mere pretense and admittedly invalid.”
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.