Davis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2017
18 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 Scarpelli v. Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board · Schick v. Newspaper Guild of Greater Philadelphia
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. claimant’s employment contract includes transportation to and from work; 2. claimant has no fixed place of work; 3. claimant is on a special mission for employer ; or 4. Special circumstances are such that claimant was furthering the business of the employer.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘Injury’, ‘personal injury’, and ‘injury arising in the course of his employment’ defined (1) The terms ‘injury’, and ‘personal injury’, as used in this act shall be construed to mean an injury to an employe, regardless of his previous physical condition, arising in the course of his employment and related thereto, and such disease or infection as naturally results from the injury or is aggravated, reactivated or accelerated ¡by the injury; and wherever death is mentioned as a cause for compensation under this act, it shall mean only death ■; resulting from such injury and its resultant effects, and occurring within three hundred weeks after the- injury. The term, ‘injury arising in the course of his employment’, as used in this article, shall not include an injury caused by .an act of a third person intended to injure, the employe because of reasons personal to him, and not directed against him as an,employe or because of his employment; but shall include all o.ther injuries sustained while the employe is actually engaged in the furtherance of the business or affairs of the employ- . er, whether upon the employer’s premises or elsewhere, and shall include all injuries caused ..by the condition of the premises or by the operation of the employer’s business or affairs . thereon, sustained by the employe who though ' not so engaged, is injured upon the premises occupied by or under the control of the em- ■ ployer, or upon which the employer’s business or affairs are being.carri”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In Davis the employee was a pharmacist who worked for a supermarket in Reading. As part of Davis's employment contract, he was required as well to work at other stores operated by his employer in Allentown and Bethlehem. Davis was killed in an auto accident while returning from the Bethlehem store to his home in Reading and his wife applied for worker's compensation benefits. Although Commonwealth Court acknowledged the”
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.