Klingler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 2014
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 Petrone v. Moffat Coal Co. · Morgan v. Giant Markets, Inc. · 122 Pa. Super. 163 - Petrulo v. M. O'Herron Co. · 214 Pa. Super. 267 - Billick v. Republic Steel Corp. · Pittsburgh Des Moines Steel Co. v. Commonwealth
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]nterest payments are clearly intended to effect the compensatory goal of the Act, since the purpose of the interest provision ‘is to put the claimant, when his right to compensation is finally adjudicated in his favor, in the same position as if no contest had been made, considering interest at six per cent equivalent to the loss of the use of the money.’ Petrulo v. M. O’Herron Co., 122 Pa. Superior Ct. 163, 168 , 186 A. 397, 399 (1936) (emphasis added).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had the burden of proving an increase in his disability by precise and credible evidence of a more definite and specific nature than that required to obtain compensation initially”). 7 . The”
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.