Daly v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2004
20 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 Zeber Appeal · Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education & the Hospital Ass'n v. Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare · 33 Pa. Commw. 276 - Singer v. Sheppard · 145 F. Supp. 439 - Martin v. Monmouth Park Jockey Club · Giagos Tripolitis v. J. W. Holland, District Director, Immigration and Naturalization Service
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““clearly reflects the legislature’s desire to maintain public respect and confidence in the sport of horse racing, and conduct which undermines that confidence need not be criminal in nature nor proved beyond a reasonable doubt____ It is sufficient that the complained of conduct and its attending circumstances be such as to reflect negatively on the sport.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(c) An association licensed by the commission may refuse admission to and eject from the enclosure of the race track operated by the association, any person licensed by the State Horse Racing Commission pursuant to section 11, employed at his occupation at such race track, whose presence there is deemed detrimental to the best interests of horse racing, citing the reason or reasons for such determination. The action of the association in refusing such person admission to or ejecting him from a race meeting ground or enclosure shall have immediate effect. Such person refused admission or ejected shall receive a hearing before the State Horse Racing Commission, if requested, pursuant to rules and regulations adopted for that purpose by the State Horse Eacing Commission, and a decision rendered following such hearing. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We believe that a person of ordinary intelligence has adequate notice that the presence of a [jockey] who has been indicted for race-fixing would be “detrimental to the best interests of racing”, “a sport where the greatest importance should attach to dissipating any cloud of association with the undesirable, and in which the appearance as well as the fact of complete integrity is of paramount consideration....” 10”
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.