Weaver v. Harpster’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Philadelphia Housing Authority v. American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees, District Council 33, Local 934 (2012), Snyder Bros., Inc. v. Pa. Pub. Util. Comm'n (2018)
2 federal appellate · 48 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 2000E (§ 717 of the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964)
Relies on Meritor Savings Bank, FSB v. Vinson · Tomka v. Seiler Corp. · Geary v. United States Steel Corp. · Clackamas Gastroenterology Associates, P. C. v. Wells · Miller v. Maxwell's International Inc.
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is for the legislature to formulate the public policies of the Commonwealth.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Our standard of review of a trial court’s order granting preliminary objections in the nature of a demurrer is de novo and our scope of review is plenary. The question presented by the demurrer is whether, on the facts averred, the law says with certainty that no recovery is possible. Where a doubt exists as to whether a demurrer should be sustained, this doubt should be resolved in favor of overruling it. A demurrer by a defendant admits all relevant facts sufficiently pleaded in the complaint and all inferences fairly deducible therefrom, but not conclusions of law or unjustified inferences. In ruling on a demurrer, the court may consider only such matters as arise out of the complaint itself; it cannot supply a fact missing in the complaint. Consequently, preliminary objections should be sustained only if, assuming the averments of the complaint to be true, the plaintiff has failed to assert a legally cognizable cause of action. Where the complaint fails to set forth a valid cause of action, a preliminary objection in the nature of a demurrer is properly sustained.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“absent a statutory or contractual provision to the contrary, either party may terminate an employment relationship for any or no reason.”
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.