Tunison v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2007 · most notably Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission v. Smith (1944), Interstate Cemetery Co. Appeal (1966)
50 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 Baker v. Kirschnek · Commonwealth v. Trunk · Morganroth's Election Contest Case · Steele v. Lineberger · Gettysburg Memorial Ass'n v. Sherfy
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Sjtatutes relating to costs are to be liberally interpreted in order to justly compensate parties who have been obliged to incur necessary expenses in prosecuting lawful claims or in defending against unjust or unlawful ones.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““In all matters, proceedings, and hearings before the courts of common pleas relating to the exercise of the right of eminent domain, and in the laying out, opening, viewing, and reviewing of public or private roads, and claims for damages to property by reason of the exercise of the right of eminent domain, it shall be lawful for the court hearing such proceedings to make such orders relative to the payment of the necessary costs incurred as to the court shall appear right and just”: Act of June 21, 1939, P. L. 651, sec. 1, 36 PS §2442.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Smolak““in the absence of a statute imposing liability upon the Commonwealth for the payment of costs, no such liability exists. (Gettysburg B. M. A. v. Sherfy, 117 Pa. 256 [ 10 A. 758 ]; Commonwealth v. Commissioners of the County of Philadelphia, 8 S. & R. 151; Commonwealth v. Johnson, 5 S. & R. 194; see 59 C.J. 332, § 503).””
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.