Wolf v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Young (1974), Rader v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (1962)
53 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 Whitcomb v. Philadelphia · Springer v. Allegheny County · Culver v. Commonwealth · Waugh v. Commonwealth · Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co. v. Commonwealth
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The constitutional mandate of ‘just compensation’ should be applied regardless of the status of the condemnor and the person whose property has been taken should receive identical treatment at the hands of any condemnor. The only sensible, logical and equitable manner in which ‘the integrity of the constitutional requirement’ can be maintained is to require that the Commonwealth pay interest on the amount of the award from the date of the award until the Commonwealth has actually paid the value of the property taken”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Constitution of the State requires that just compensation be first made or secured for the taking of private property for public' use.' Where that is not first done, i.e., at the time of the taking, the integrity of the constitutional requirement can be respected only by including in the award for the value of the property taken such damage as there may have been (within legally _ pre-spribed limits) due to ‘the delay in payment, for the property.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"This phase of the Commonwealth's argument is completely and entirely based upon matters which do not appear upon the record . . . Not only can we not consider such an argument but such an attempt to go beyond the record in this matter is not to be countenanced." Wolf v. Commonwealth, 403 Pa. 499, 504, 505 , 170 A.2d 557, 561 (1961). (Emphasis omitted).”
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.