Davidow v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently October 2011 · most notably Snyder v. Harmon (1989), 121 Pa. Commw. 51 - Bradley v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (1988)
29 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 Vaughn 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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Acts which may impose liability—The following acts by a Commonwealth party may result in the imposition' of liability on the Commonwealth and the defense of sovereign immunity should not be raised to claims for damages caused by: (6) Care, custody or control of ani mals—The care, custody or control of animals in the possession or control of a Commonwealth party, including but not limited to police dogs and horsés and animals incarcerated in Commonwealth agency laboratories. Damages shall not he recoverable under this paragraph on account of any injury caused by wild animals, including but not limited to bears and deer except as otherwise provided by statute. (Emphasis added.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“We interpret this section as being evidence of an intent on the part of the General Assembly to exempt the sovereign from immunity only in specific, clearly-stated situations and that it is our duty, therefore, strictly to construe the above sections.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Liability imposed. — The General Assembly, pursuant to section 11 of Article I of the Constitution of Pennsylvania, does hereby waive, in the instances set forth in subsection (b) only and only to the extent set forth in this subchapter and within the limits set forth in section 8528 (relating to limitations on damages), sovereign immunity as a bar to an action against Commonwealth parties, for damages arising out of a negligent act where thd damages would be recoverable under the common law or a statute creating a cause of action if the injury were caused by a person not having available the defense of sovereign immunity.”
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.