McMullan v. WOHLGEMUTH’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 335 Pa. Super. 141 - Harris by Harris v. Easton Pub. Co. (1984), Pirillo v. Pirillo (1975)
66 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 42 U.S.C. § 302 (§ 2 of the Social Security Act of 1935)
Relies on New York Times Co. v. Sullivan · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Rosenbloom v. Metromedia, Inc. · Klein v. Board of Tax Supervisors · Majors v. Brodhead Hotel
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The department shall have the power to make and enforce regulations: (1) To protect the names of applicants for and recipients of public assistance from improper publication, and to restrict the use of information furnished to other agencies or persons to purposes connected with the administration of public assistance. Upon request by any adult resident of the Commonwealth, the department may furnish the address and amount of assistance with respect to persons about whom inquiry is made; but information so obtained shall not be used for commercial or political purposes ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Any account, voucher or contract dealing with the receipt or disbursement of funds by an agency or its acquisition, use or disposal of sendees or of supplies, materials, equipment or other property of any minute, order, or decision by an agency fixing the personal or property rights, privileges, immunities, duties or obligations of any person or group of persons ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[e]very public record of an agency shall, at reasonable times, be open for examination and inspection by any citizen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,”
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.