McKenna v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2014
8 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 Retirement Board v. McGovern · Hickey v. Pittsburgh Pension Board · Harvey v. Allegheny County Retirement Board · McBride v. Allegheny County Retirement Board · Baker v. Retirement Bd. of Allegheny Co.
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.
“Issue a Writ of Mandamus ordering defendants to: (1) recalculate and pay the retirement allowances of the named and class plaintiffs in accordance with the 1959 Retirement Code and the constitutional provisions of the 1974 Retirement Code, without reference to the ‘freeze’ imposed by the Compensation Commission Reports; and (2) pay to the named and class plaintiffs the difference between what they have received from defendants as retirement allowances and what they should have received.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Once the plaintiffs had satisfied the conditions of eligibility which governed the right to a pension under the 1959 Code, that Code became the plaintiffs’ contract of retirement. Once the plaintiffs attained eligibility for a pension under the 1959 Code, they gained a vested right to have their retirement allowances computed according to the formula mandated by that Code.””
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.