Bisesi v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2009
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 47 Pa. Commw. 378 - Zoltak v. Keystone-Harmony Dairy
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The claimant's personal physician could offer no diagnosis of his symptoms. He testified that he could only `assume' that the claimant's symptoms were related to his most recent accident because they coincided with its occurrence. The neurosurgeon who testified for the claimant also balked at venturing a definite diagnosis. He could only testify that `it would seem' that the claimant's most recent accident played a role in causing his symptoms because they occurred with greater frequency following the incident. He repeatedly emphasized that he did not have a definite opinion about the etiology of the claimant's disability.”
2 later decisions 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.