Commonwealth v. Gulch’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2002
10 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 Application of El Rancho Grande, Inc. · In re Brandywine Valley Inn, Inc. · 188 Pa. Super. 200 - Bierman Liquor License Case · In re the Springdale District Sportsmen's Ass'n · In Re Decision of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board Refusing Application for a New Restaurant Liquor License by Aiello
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In order to be classified as a resort area, the municipality and its immediate environs must have a seasonal influx of a large number of temporary inhabitants and suitable accommodations for this transient population. Penn State Faculty Club Liquor License Case, 33 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 320 , 381 A.2d 1017 (1978); Bierman Liquor License Case, 188 Pa. Superior Ct. 200 , 145 A.2d 876 (1958). Moreover, there must be specific evidence relating to the number and size of the recreational facilities in and around the municipality, their proximity to the applicants place of business, the seasons during which the facilities are used, and the number of people occupying them. Aiello Liquor License Case, 41 Pa. Commonwealth Ct. 345 , 399 A.2d 154 (1979). (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Roberts
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.