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← 5 PACOMMW 228 - Dydo v. Commonwealth

Dydo v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

1972

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
August 1988
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 5 U.S.C. § 8101 (Attendant Allowance Adjustment Act)

Relies on M'Culloch v. State of Maryland · Johnson v. State of Maryland · Posey v. Tennessee Valley Authority · 205 Pa. Super. 117 - Herman v. Kandrat Coal Co. · Breeding v. Tennessee Valley Authority

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The term ‘employe,’ as used in this act, is declared to be synonymous with servant, and includes all natural persons who perform services . . . for another for a valuable consideration. . . . (Emphasis added.)”
    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.