Steinle v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently April 2010
21 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 · Barrett v. Otis Elevator Co. · Temple v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways · 155 Pa. Super. 165 - Creighton v. Continental Roll & Steel Foundry Co. · Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Olivetti Corp. of America
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen an employee is totally disabled and the employer, while denying any liability for workmen’s compensation, nevertheless pays the employee regular stated amounts . . . out of sick or accident benefits or relief funds contributed by it, not as wages or salary for work performed, but in relief of the employee’s incapacity to labor, on its being determined that the employee is entitled to workmen’s compensation, the amount paid by the employer discharges its liability for compensation for the weeks in which its payments to him equalled or exceeded the compensation payable. (Emphasis partially deleted; emphasis added) (quoting Creighton v. Continental Roll & Steel Foundry Co., 155 Pa. Superior Ct. 165, 173 , 38 A.2d 337, 341 (1944).)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he fact that claimant has not suffered from the specific symptoms of an ischemic heart since the 1974 incident is not controlling to the issue of total disability. Once the claimant has shown by credible evidence that he can no longer perform his former work because of a work-related injury, the burden shifts to the employer to show that he can perform certain work and that such work is available, and absent such proof, the claimant must be compensated for total disability.”
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.