Wimbish v. School District’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently November 2022 · most notably Mascaro v. Youth Study Center (1987), Crowell v. City of Philadelphia (1992)
47 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 Bata v. Central-Penn Nat. Bank of Phila. · GOLDMAN v. McShain · Behrend v. Yellow Cab Co. · 240 Pa. Super. 541 - Matthew-Landis Co. v. Housing 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An employee of a local agency is liable for civil damages on account of any injury to a person or property caused by acts of the employee which are within the scope of his office or duties only to the same extent as his employing local agency and subject to the limitations imposed by this subchapter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The averments in the appellant’s complaint clearly indicate that the gravamen of his action was the alleged negligence of district employees within respect to an activity on district premises. . . . There is no indication whatever that the district was negligent in the care, custody or control of the property. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) Actions or activities which may impose liability. — The following acts or activities by a political subdivision or any of its employees may result in the imposition of liability on a political subdivision: (3) The care, custody or control of real property in the possession of the political subdivision. . . .”
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.