Piper v. Singer Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently August 2002
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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 3304 (Federal Unemployment Tax Act)
Relies on Kentucky State Racing Commission v. Fuller · Brown Hotel Company v. Edwards · Bancamerica-Blair Corp. v. State Highway Commission · Commonwealth v. Frost, Com. of Welfare · Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Kentucky Unemployment Insurance 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It requires no citation of authority to point out that upon appeal from an administrative agency, charged with the duty of fact finding, that a reviewing court is not free to substitute its judgment for that of the agency unless the latter acted in an arbitrary or capricious manner. In the ease at bar, there is not the slightest suggestion that the referee or commission acted as such. It is also axiomatic that the court should not make its own findings of fact. Although the criteria for court review of administrative determinations is somewhat elusive, one of the best statements addressing the problem is found in Commonwealth v. Frost, 295 Ky. 137 , 172 S.W.2d 905, 909 (1943), to the effect: There are many factors affecting the scope of judicial review of administrative action. Neither its extent nor limitation can be closely defined. In the absence of statutory authority in a particular case, it may be said that the courts will not, under the pretext of finding a remedy for one believed to be wronged, assume to exercise a discretion which the people, acting through their Legislature, have lodged in administrative officers and agencies. As said in Bancamerica-Blair Corporation et al v. State Highway Commission et al, 265 Ky. 100 , 95 S.W.2d 1068 , 1071: “The very essence of a discretionary power is that the person or persons exercising it may choose which of several courses will be followed. The power to exercise an honest discretion necessarily includes the power to make an ”
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.