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← 598 Pa. 459 - Commonwealth v. Corban Corp.

Commonwealth v. Corban Corp.’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited

11 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on O'ROURKE v. Commonwealth · Hannaberry HVAC v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board · In Re Milton Hershey School · Housing Auth. v. PA CIVIL SERVICE COM'N · Housing Authority of Chester v. Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commission

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

  1. “the Act’s intended purpose ... is to provide payment to the injured worker commensurate with the damage from accidental work-related injury, as a fair exchange for the surrender of every other right of action against the employer.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “When the words of a statute are clear and free from all ambiguity, they are presumed to be the best indication of legislative intent.”
    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.