Coretsky v. Board of Commissioners

How courts have described this case

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

• opining that “by definition, ‘shall’ is mandatory”
• “[T]here is no latitude for overlooking the plain meaning” because by definition, “shall” is mandatory.
• “By definition, ‘shall’ is mandatory. Accordingly, there is no latitude for overlooking the plain meaning of [the statute] to reach a more desired result.”
• “By definition, ‘shall’ is mandatory.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

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

• Zane v. Friends Hospital
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-11-19· cited 203×
• Pennsylvania Financial Responsibility Assigned Claims Plan v. English
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1995-08-22· cited 172×
• Com., Dept. of Transp. v. McCafferty
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2000-09-28· cited 148×
• Oberneder v. Link Computer Corp.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-06-17· cited 129×
• Commonwealth v. Lassiter
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1998-12-23· cited 101×
• Mishoe v. Erie Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2003-05-30· cited 82×
• Koken v. Reliance Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-03-20· cited 79×
• Commonwealth v. Heberling
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-07· cited 74×
• Grom v. Burgoon
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-03-08· cited 72×
• Prevish v. Northwest Medical Center—Oil City Campus
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-04-04· cited 45×
• Kassouf v. Township of Scott
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-09-28· cited 36×
• Zullo v. Zullo
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-09-16· cited 36×
• Mohney v. McClure
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-04-16· cited 24×
• Boettger v. Loverro
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-26· cited 22×
• Hatter v. Landsberg
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-08-16· cited 21×
• Commonwealth v. Magliocco
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-09-11· cited 20×
• Commonwealth v. Corradino
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1991-03-26· cited 19×
• Philadelphia Suburban Corp. v. Commonwealth
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-03· cited 18×
• Borough of Glendon v. Department of Environmental Resources
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-01-28· cited 18×
• Springfield Township v. Mellon PSFS Bank
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-30· cited 18×