Kuzel v. Krause’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Bright v. Westmoreland County (2006), Kim Brown
4 federal appellate · 19 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 In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · 281 Pa. Super. 560 - Yaindl v. Ingersoll-Rand Co. Standard Pump-Aldrich Division · Montgomery v. Philadelphia · Maleski v. PARCare, Inc. · Renk v. City of Pittsburgh
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1)Defenses which are available at common law to the employee. (2) The defense that the conduct of the employee which gave rise to the claim was authorized or required by law, or that he in good faith reasonably believed the conduct was authorized or required by law. (3) The defense that the act of the employee was within the policy making discretion granted to the employee by law....”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“desire to bring about the result that followed his conduct or be aware that it was substantially certain to follow.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[F]or purposes of the Tort Claims Act, `willful misconduct' is synonymous with the term `intentional tort'. King v. Breach, [115 Pa. Cmwlth. 355, 540 A.2d 976, 981 (1988)].”
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.