Simon Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Marshall v. Port Authority (1990), Whitemarsh Township Authority v. Elwert (1964)
6 federal appellate · 54 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 Tranter v. Alleghency County Co. Authority · Lighton v. Abington Township · Commonwealth Ex Rel. McCreary v. Major · Evans v. West Norriton Township Municipal Authority · Williams v. Samuel
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The true nature of a Municipal Authority is that which is set forth in the earliest case of this court involving this type of public corporation. Section 2 of the Municipality Authority Act of 1945, 53 P.S. § 302(a)), defines the term “Authority” as meaning “A body politic and corporate, created pursuant to this act or pursuant to the ‘Municipality Authorities Act of 1935’ repealed hereby.” It has been consistently held in cases in point, both under the Municipality Authorities Act of 1935 and 1945 and under other legislation involving authorities that an authority is not the creature, agent or representative of the municipality organizing it. In Tranter v. Allegheny County Authority, 316 Pa. 65, 79 , 173 A. 289, 295 (1934), this court refers to the Authority “as the agent created for the purpose by the state” (emphasis supplied), notwithstanding the fact that under the Second Class County Authority Act the Authority therein provided for would not come into being until the county commissioners so declared. Much unnecessary confusion has been injected into this field in the past years, apparently on the erroneous impression that an Authority is merely the child or instrumentality of the municipality incorporating it, under the authority of such isolated and unfortunate expressions as set forth in State College Borough Authority v. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, 152 Pa.Super. 588, 594 , 132 A.2d 909 (1957); and in the opinion of the Attorney General under the caption I”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an independent agency of the Commonwealth”
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.