Commonwealth v. Grant

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• prison guard arrested for violating the Uniform Firearms Act removed because he held a highly sensitive position that required him to avoid the appearance of impropriety
• prison guard arrested for violating the Uniform Firearms Act removed because he held a highly sensitive position that required him to avoid the appearance of impropriety
• Corrections Officer I was properly dismissed after being arrested for violating the Uniform Firearms Act and possessing a stolen weapon
• prison guards discharge was upheld where he had been arrested on a robbery charge after being found in an automobile which was used in a robbery and which contained a stolen handgun

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

26 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Woods v. State Civil Service Commission
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-12-27· cited 25×
• Department of Corrections v. Roche
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-01-04· cited 18×
• Stone v. State Correctional Institution
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1980-12-08· cited 16×
• Brown v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-03-29· cited 15×
• Williams v. State Civil Service Commission
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-11-19· cited 11×
• Gibson v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-04-18· cited 11×
• State Ex Rel. Ashley v. Civil Service Commission for Deputy Sheriffs of Kanawha County
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1990-07-11· cited 10×
• Reece v. Tennessee Civil Service Commission
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 1985-08-29· cited 9×
• Salvati v. Berks County Board of Assistance
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-04-23· cited 8×
• Fiegenberg v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-02-10· cited 7×
• Aiello v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-12-19· cited 6×
• Philadelphia County Board of Assistance v. Vinson
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-07-19· cited 6×
• White v. Dept. of Corr.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-10-28· cited 5×
• Ettinger v. PA. ST. CIV. SER. COMM.
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-03-24· cited 5×
• Cardamone v. Commonwealth, State Civil Service Commission
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-24· cited 5×
• Commonwealth v. Joint Bargaining Committee
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1984-05-02· cited 5×
• Davis v. Commonwealth, Youth Development Center, Department of Public Welfare
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-04-14· cited 5×
• Vaniscak v. Commonwealth, State Civil Service Commission
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-24· cited 4×
• City of Philadelphia v. CIVIL SERV. COM'N (JOHNSON)
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2009-03-25· cited 3×
• Salvati v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare, Berks County Board of Assistance
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1983-08-09· cited 3×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Zeber Appeal
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1959-12-30· cited 101×
• Corder v. Civil Service Commission
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-07-09· cited 64×
• Williams v. Civil Service Commission
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-10-16· cited 32×
• Commonwealth v. Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Ass'n
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-03-19· cited 32×
• Gibbs v. Civil Service Commission
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1971-08-31· cited 22×
• Kramer v. City of Bethlehem
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1972-04-12· cited 18×
• Cotter v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1974-04-16· cited 13×
• Hughes v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1975-02-07· cited 9×