Berkowitz v. Wilbar’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 1987
16 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 Travis v. Teter · Lindenfelser v. Lindenfelser · Schwab v. Pottstown Borough · Volunteer Firemen's Relief Ass'n v. Minehart · Raffel v. Pittsburgh
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We are not unaware of the fact that the Civil Service Commission, not a party to the instant proceedings, in refusing appellant a hearing, begged some of the very questions which appellant raises. That is, in refusing a hearing because appellant was not in the classified service, the Commission assumed the very conclusion which appellant sought to disprove. Accordingly, appellant’s remedy is by way of an action in mandamus to establish, if he can, his right to a hearing and reinstatement. See Volunteer Firemen’s Relief Ass’n. v. Minehart, 415 Pa. 305 , 203 A. 2d 476 (1964); Pittsburgh City Fire Fighters Local No. 1 v. Barr, 408 Pa. 325 , 184 A. 2d 588 (1962); Travis v. Teter, 370 Pa. 326, 330-31 , 87 A. 2d 177, 179 (1952); Slessinger v. Fairley, 340 Pa. 273 , 16 A. 2d 710 (1940); Raffel v. Pittsburgh, 340 Pa. 243 , 16 A. 2d 392 (1940)”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““there is an urgent necessity to avoid injury which cannot be compensated for by damages and should never be awarded except when the rights of the plaintiff are clear. Also, it should in no event ever be issued unless greater injury will be done by refusing it than in granting it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Nothing contained in this amendatory act shall be construed to remove from the classified service any position which was in the classified service in the service of the Commonwealth immediately prior to the effective date of this amendatory act”. (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.