Bond v. Pittsburgh’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Siidekum v. Animal Rescue League of Pittsburgh · Fire Insurance Patrol v. Boyd · Gable v. Sisters of St. Francis · Wilkinsburg Bor. v. Home for Aged Women · Philadelphia v. Pennsylvania Hospital
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Nothwithstanding the violent criticisms that have been directed by academic legal writers against the doctrine of the immunity of charitable organizations from tort liability, and notwithstanding also the fact that there is considerable conflict in the judicial decisions on the subject among the several States, our own Commonwealth has, from the earliest times, stood firm in 'its adherence to the principle of immunity. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * ‘It is a doctrine too well established to be shaken, and as unequivocally declared in our own state as in any other, that a public charity cannot be made liable for the tort of its servants.’ * * * ” 1”
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.