Acchione v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1988 · most notably Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission v. Sanders & Thomas, Inc. (1975), Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 85 v. Port Authority (1965)
6 federal appellate · 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 Henry Shenk Co. v. Erie County · Philadelphia Housing Authority v. Turner Construction Co. · Seaboard Surety Co. v. Commonw'lth. · Frederick Snare Corp. v. Philadelphia
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The provisions of this act shall apply to any written contract to which the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, or any agency or subdivision thereof, or any municipal corporation or political division of the Commonwealth shall be a party.”
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.