Upper St. Clair Township v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. · Reitman v. Mulkey · Federal Power Commission v. Louisiana Power & Light Co. · Norwood v. Harrison · Schubach v. Silver
Most-quoted passages
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““One litmus of the breadth of an administrator’s authority is the purpose for which the authority was conferred.” Upper St. Clair Tp. v. Com. of Pa. Dept. of Community Affairs, 478 Pa. 546, 561 , 387 A.2d 456, 464 , (1978).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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