Templeton Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably Scott v. Philadelphia Parking Authority (1960), Gagliardi v. Lynn (1971)
66 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 Breinig v. Allegheny County · Fisher v. Hill · McKay v. Beatty · Grote Trust · Coppage v. Smith
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““However, to establish his legal right to the position involved he had the burden of proving the legality of his appointment thereto. Upon him rested the responsibility of estabhshing his title de jure to the position he claimed the legal right to hold. Permanency of tenure, given by the Act of 1951, applies only to those whose appointments are made in compliance with law,” citing Manning v. Millbourne Borough Civil Service Commission, 387 Pa. 176 , 127 A. 2d 599 (1956).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We have considered this question previously and our position is clear: ‘... a lower court will not be reversed either for waiving or refusing to waive noncompliance with procedural rules in the absence of a showing of an abuse of discretion which has caused manifest and palpable injury to the complaining party: see Richter v. Mozenter, 356 Pa. 650, 654 , 53 A.2d 76 .’ Templeton Appeal, 399 Pa. 10, 16 , 159 A.2d 725, 729 (1960), quoting from Coppage v. Smith, 381 Pa. 400, 404 , 113 A.2d 247 (1955). This practice comports with Pa.R.C.P. 126 ....”
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.