Murphy v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Vincent v. Fuller Co. (1992), McNasby v. Crown Cork & Seal Co. (1989)
4 federal appellate · 4 district · 33 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 Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co. · SPIRES Et Ux. v. Hanover Fire Ins. Co. · Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission v. Alto-Reste Park Cemetery Ass'n · Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission v. St. Joe Minerals Corp., Zinc Smelting Division · Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission v. Zamantakis
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y statute the jurisdiction of the Human Relations Commission may be invoked by filing a verified complaint ‘which shall set forth the particulars’ of the discrimination practice complained of. 43 P.S. § 959. (citation omitted). A filing which does not comply with these strictures improperly invokes the Commission’s jurisdiction, and is in fact a nullity.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Since the [original] complaint was defective, the [PHRC] was without jurisdiction to rule on the merits of this case until the properly pleaded ‘Amended Complaint,’ and thus we find no merit in appellant’s tolling argument. Similarly we dismiss their contention that the second pleading corrected the first, since the ‘Amended Complaint’ could not properly be construed to convey ex post facto jurisdiction for a period beyond the statutory limit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he Commission also directed [Crown Cork] to implement an affirmative action program; to make good faith offers of reinstatement to each female employee who was laid off while a male of lesser seniority was retained; and to integrate their shift, department, and plant seniority systems.”
1 later decision 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.