Smithgall v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · 132 Pa. Commw. 452 - Randolph Vine Associates v. Zoning Board of Adjustment · Pelter v. Commonwealth · Borough of Marcus Hook v. Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Board · Duncan Meter Corp. v. Gritsavage
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.
“[C]ity controllers of third class cities have discretion not to sign only where the violation of law is clear and well known, or where there is fraud or bad faith present.”
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.