Commonwealth v. Cherney’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Wm. Penn Parking Garage, Inc. v. City of Pittsburgh (1975), Tosto v. Pennsylvania Nursing Home Loan Agency (1975)
24 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 Archbishop O'Hara's Appeal · Belovsky v. Redevelopment Authority · Chartiers Valley Joint Schools v. Allegheny County Board of School Directors · Commonwealth ex rel. McClain v. Locke · DePAUL v. Kauffman
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.
“we are not limited to the mere letter of the law, but must look to the underlying purpose of the statute and its reasonable effect.”
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.