Powell v. Shepard’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
92 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 94 later decisions — most recently September 2014 · most notably Sprague v. Casey (1988), Gardner v. Allegheny County (1955)
92 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 Hadley's Case · Hartley v. Langkamp · Fineman v. Cutler · Philadelphia v. Martin · Luzerne County v. Morgan
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 94 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(c) An action brought in the name of a party to enforce a right or to compel performance of a public act or duty in which the party has a beneficial interest distinct from that of the general public may be brought in and only in “(1) Dauphin County, when the action is against an officer, department, board, commission or instrumentality of the Commonwealth;””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““ ‘Since Philadelphia v. Martin, 125 Pa. 583 , 17 A. 507 , whenever the question has arisen, this Court has consistently held that a county officer, acting for the Commonwealth in the collection of its revenues, does not act in his capacity as a public officer, but as an agent or employe of the Commonwealth performing distinct and separate functions.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is not open to question that the recorder of deeds acts as the agent of the Secretary of Revenue for the collection of the State tax on deeds imposed by The Realty Transfer Act of 1951. * * *””
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.