Abraham v. Shapp’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2006
10 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 In Re William L. · Firing v. Kephart · Daly v. Hemphill · Tranter v. Alleghency County Co. Authority · Tosto v. Pennsylvania Nursing Home Loan Agency
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Retention and election processes are distinct processes. Retention as used herein refers to the process by which the electors determine whether a judicial officer shall remain in his position as set forth in Pa. Const, art. 5, § 15(b)(1968), or, more commonly, it refers to a “yes-no” determination. Election refers to the process by which the electors determine which person out of the number properly seeking the judicial position shall occupy it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The implication is clear, judges who are to serve statewide must be elected to do so by the electors who are to be served, namely, the electors of the Commonwealth.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thiemann v. Allen“In the context of a discussion of the election process to fill a public office, we have indicated the right of the elector to select between persons is necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Thiemann v. Allen
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.