Commonwealth v. Ryan’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently August 2009 · most notably Finberg v. Sullivan (1980), 264 Pa. Super. 53 - Cipolla v. Cipolla (1979)
2 federal appellate · 45 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 United States v. United Mine Workers of America · Howat v. State of Kansas · Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus for Merritt W Green II · Newton v. Kings County Lighting Co. · Commonwealth v. Little
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a strike by public employes occurs after the collective bargaining processes set forth in sections 801 and 802 of Article VII of this act have been completely utilized and exhausted, it shall not be prohibited unless or until such a strike creates a clear and present danger or threat to the health, safety or welfare of the public. In such cases the public employer shall initiate, in the court of common pleas of the jurisdiction where such strike occurs, an action for equitable relief including but not limited to appropriate injunctions and shall be entitled to such relief if the court finds that the strike creates a clear and present danger or threat to the health, safety or welfare of the public. If the strike involves Commonwealth employes, the chief legal officer of the public employer or the Attorney General where required by law shall institute an action for equitable relief in the court of common pleas of the jurisdiction where the strike has occurred or the Commonwealth Court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““. . . The defect of premature filing could not be cured by the subsequent occurrence of the threatened strike. As we said in Brenner v. Sukenik, 410 Pa. 324, 328 , 189 A.2d 246, 248 (1963): ‘[t]he question of equity’s jurisdiction must be determined on the facts and circumstances existing upon the date the action is instituted: Lafean v. American Caramel Co., 271 Pa. 276 , 114 A. 622 (1921)’. ... But it was not merely the power to grant an injunction that was absent [on the date the suit was filed]; it was the right of the School Board to invoke jurisdiction at all. No right of action existed until the strike was in being. Where matters of jurisdiction are concerned, the courts must enforce the letter of the law.” Commonwealth v. Ryan, 459 Pa. at 157 , 327 A.2d at 355 . [Emphasis added]”
2 later decisions 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.