430 Pa. Super. 253 - Commonwealth v. Rogers’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2019
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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1491 · 49 U.S.C. § 1301 · 49 U.S.C. § 1304
Relies on Penn Central Transportation Co. v. New York City · Pennsylvania Coal Co. v. Mahon · Lucas v. South Carolina Coastal Council · Agins v. City of Tiburon · Loretto v. Teleprompter Manhattan CATV 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) General rule. — The ownership of the space over and above the lands ... of this Commonwealth is declared to be vested in the owner of the surface beneath, but the ownership extends only so far as is necessary to the enjoyment of the use of the surface without interference and is subject to the right of passage or flight of aircraft. (Emphasis in original).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Flowers“[i]n this manner, [the department of transportation] can ensure that the safety regulations promulgated by the FAA are applied uniformly throughout the Commonwealth to establish a minimum threshold of safety, irrespective of different standards which may be adopted at the local level.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Thus, although Congress has concerned itself with the hazards posed by tall structures, it has left untouched the legal enforcement of standards, which are peculiarly adapted to local regulation. Therefore, the states may legislate concerning such matters.”
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.