Pivarnik v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2000
2 federal appellate · 17 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 · Scott v. Philadelphia Parking Authority · Mahoney v. Philadelphia Housing Authority · Amesbury v. Luzerne County Institution District · 50 Pa. Commw. 30 - DeFrank v. COUNTY OF GREENE
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Colban Appeal, we held merely that the discharge procedure contained in the county’s employee handbook was “a form of guarantee of employment during unof-fending conduct or until after being thrice warned of a minor infraction.” ... We did not hold that the employee handbook was a contract granting the employee a property right in his employment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Any person aggrieved by an adjudication of a local agency who has a direct interest in such adjudication shall have the right to appeal therefrom to the court vested with jurisdiction of such appeals by or pursuant to Title 42 (relating to judiciary and judicial procedure).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]ny final order, decree, decision, determination or ruling by an agency affecting personal or property rights, privileges, immunities, duties, liabilities or obligations of any or all of the parties to the proceeding in which the adjudication is made____”
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.