Stilp v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “[T]here are others who are better situated than Stilp to assert the challenge. In particular, county commissioners, controllers, auditors or treasurers in any of the 31 counties in which the status of the district attorney changed ... would be the best suited to challenge the statute. Those county officers with responsibility for county finances would be detrimentally affected by the county’s share of increased compensation to be paid to ... the district attorney.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Finn v. Rendell

2. “the courts accept as true all well-pleaded allegations of material facts as well as all of the inferences reasonably deducible from the facts. For preliminary objections to be sustained, it must appear with certainty that the law will permit no recovery, and any doubt must be resolved in favor of the non-moving party.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Gregory v. Pennsylvania State Police

3. “A full-time district attorney shall be compensated at one thousand dollars ($1,000) lower than the compensation paid to a judge of the court of common pleas in the respective judicial district.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. County Commissioners Ass'n v. Dinges