Burchfield v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2002
4 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 United Steelworkers v. Warrior & Gulf Navigation Co. · Sampson v. Murray · Board of Education of the School District v. Philadelphia Federation of Teachers Local No. 3 · Amalgamated Transit Union, Division 1384 v. Greyhound Lines, Inc. · Commonwealth v. United States Steel Corp.
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To enjoin the administrative action in every case of a dismissal, demotion or disciplinary action would not only contravene this policy but, by granting an injunction in a case such as this, we would be reading into the Collective Bargaining Agreement a provision requiring the maintenance of the status quo pending the resolution of the dispute. We are not prepared to impose such a burden on a party who has not contracted for it.”
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.