449 Pa. Super. 528 - Oberneder v. Link Computer Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
2 district · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably 2011 Pa. Super. 121 - Braun v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (2011), 2000 Pa. Super. 140 - Hartman v. Baker (2000)
2 district · 19 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 344 Pa. Super. 78 - Tyler v. King · 381 Pa. Super. 23 - Commonwealth v. Ferguson · 416 Pa. Super. 555 - Mamone v. Beltone Hearing Aid Services, Inc. · 304 Pa. Super. 213 - Todora v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. · Barnhart v. Compugraphic 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This interpretation is consistent with the general import of the statute, and goes to the very “essence” of its goal of making an employee whole again. Otherwise, employees who are unjustly deprived of their wages by their employers, may be deterred from filing suit because of burdensome legal costs. Similarly, employees who do file suit and are successful, would be subjected to payment of a substantial part of their award (which represents earned compensation) as attorneys’ fees. This would clearly undermine the intent of the statute; [sic] because employees who are unable to retain their wages will not be made whole. Without an award of attorneys’ fees the end result would be only a partial recovery under the statute.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally, the underlying purpose of the WPCL is to remove some of the obstacles employees face in litigation by providing them with a statutory remedy when an employer breaches its contractual obligation to pay wages. 48 P.S. § 260.1. et seq. In essence, the primary goal of the WPCL is to make whole again, employees whose wages were wrongfully withheld by their employers. To assure that employees would be made whole again, the legislature included the provision that the court “shall ... allow costs for reasonable attorneys’ fees ...” in addition to any judgment awarded. 43 P.S. § 260.9a(f).”
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.