Wilt v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2011
3 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 Economic Research Analysts, Inc. v. O'Connell · Mahoney v. Philadelphia Housing Authority · Pagano v. Pennsylvania State Horse Pacing Commission · Robinson v. Shapp · Wilt v. Commonwealth
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order for the plaintiff to prevail it would have been necessary that the Governor had the power to issue a directive granting an entitlement to continued employment to an employee in a non union position not included within the civil service system. Absent legislative action such a proposition is dubious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hartnett v. Stern
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.