Feldman v. Hoffman

How courts have described this case

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

• affirming preliminary objections ruling that county coroner was high public official 14 based upon review of coroner’s duties as defined by law
• noting “the public interest is best served by granting broad immunity to high-ranking officers”
• finding no reversible error in sustaining a preliminary objection raising immunity despite a procedural objection, because the immunity defense was apparent on the face of the complaint and further proceedings would serve no purpose
• officer of the coroner, as an elected County official, qualified as a high public official
• where petitioner fails to object by preliminary objection to respondent raising immunity by preliminary objection and the issue is apparent from the face of the complaint, the matter may be decided upon review of preliminary objections
• trial court may consider immunity defense raised by preliminary objections even where “plaintiff did object . . . where no purpose would be served by a delay in ruling on the matter and it would expedite disposition of the case”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

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  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-10-07· cited 29×
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  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-28· cited 27×
• McCulligan v. Pennsylvania State Police
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2015-09-10· cited 22×
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  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-11-22
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  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2019-09-12
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  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-11-18
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  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2020-12-14
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  Third Circuit· 2024-07-22
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  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2025-07-08
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Cites

65 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation v. White Consolidated Industries, Inc., C/o Ct Corporation Systems Registered Agent
  Third Circuit· 1993-06-30· cited 3,171×
• Womer v. Hilliker
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-10-17· cited 196×
• Matson v. Margiotti
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1952-05-27· cited 171×
• Montgomery v. Philadelphia
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-03-24· cited 151×
• Stevenson v. Economy Bank of Ambridge
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1964-01-21· cited 148×
• Hoy v. Angelone
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-03-12· cited 125×
• State v. Guthrie
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2001-05-16· cited 123×
• Norman Burkes, Jr. v. Luther Callion, Deputy Central Adult Investigations, Etc.
  Ninth Circuit· 1970-11-04· cited 113×
• Greenberg v. Aetna Insurance
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1967-11-14· cited 112×
• WURTH BY WURTH v. City of Philadelphia
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-12-14· cited 110×
• Richmond v. McHale
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2012-01-04· cited 109×
• Freach v. Commonwealth
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1977-02-28· cited 96×
• Mollan v. Lindner
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1996-06-18· cited 85×
• Cardenas v. Schober
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-08-30· cited 83×
• Willett v. Wells
  E.D. Tennessee· 1977-10-25· cited 77×
• Rufo v. the Bastian-Blessing Co.
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1965-03-16· cited 69×
• Willet v. Pennsylvania Medical Catastrophe Loss Fund
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1997-11-03· cited 64×
• Stackhouse v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania State Police
  Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 2006-02-08· cited 63×
• Detweiler v. Hatfield Borough School District
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1954-03-22· cited 61×
• Hospital & Healthsystem Ass'n v. Department of Public Welfare
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2005-12-27· cited 60×