402 Pa. Super. 1 - MacKen v. Lord Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2021
14 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 Geary v. United States Steel Corp. · Commonwealth v. Sneed · 350 Pa. Super. 183 - Darlington v. General Electric · 371 Pa. Super. 368 - Storm v. Golden · 349 Pa. Super. 351 - Phillips v. Babcock & Wilcox
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that appellant was discharged after filing a claim for compensation does not begin to satisfy appellant’s burden with regard to wrongful discharge. There is no evidence of record from which we could infer appellant’s discharge was retaliatory in nature. To the contrary, appellee’s offer of light duty employment in compliance with the directive of appellant’s treating physician negates any allegation of action by the employer to purposefully injure appellant. The record is replete, however, with repeated, documented warnings relating to the appellant’s chronic absenteeism, which, standing alone, supports appellee’s action in terminating appellant’s employment. We find, giving the appellant the benefit of all reasonable inferences, there is no evidence of retaliatory discharge on the appellee’s behalf.” Macken v. Lord Corp., 402 Pa. Super. 1, 4 , 585 A.2d 1106, 1108 (1991). (emphasis added)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Although there is no Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision squarely on point, developing Pennsylvania law suggests there can now be a cause of action for discharge in retaliation for filing workmen’s compensation claims.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“well-recognized facet of public policy is at stake,”
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.