Schofield v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2010
15 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 Epler v. North American Rockwell Corp. · 31 Pa. Commw. 329 - Commonwealth v. United States Steel Corp. · 8 Pa. Commw. 273 - Fetzer v. Michrina · Ingersoll-Rand Co. v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Levy
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The term ‘injury arising in the course of his employment,’ as used in this article . . . shall include all . . . injuries sustained while the employe is actually engaged in the furtherance of the business or affairs of the employer, whether upon the employer’s premises or elsewhere, and shall include all injuries caused by the condition of the premises . . . sustained by the employe, who, though not so engaged, is injured upon the premises occupied by or under the control of the employer . . . the employe’s presence thereon being required by the nature of his employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[e]mployer's premises' embraces property that is so connected with an employer's business as to form a component or integral part of it notwithstanding the vesting of title to the property in a third party.”
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.