Ford v. Kendall Bor. Sch. District
Citations
- 121 Pa. 543
- 15 A. 812
- 1888 Pa. LEXIS 688
Syllabus
<p>In Pennsylvania, a school district is but an agent of the commonwealth, and as such a quasi-corporation for the sole purpose of administering the commonwealth’s system of public education; it is therefore not liable for the negligence of school directors or of their employees.*</p>
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- refusing to apply respondeat superior to school districts because they are agents of the Commonwealth
- refusing to apply respondeat superior to school districts because they are agents of the Commonwealth
- doctrine of sovereign immunity arrived in Pennsylvania in Respublica v. Sparhawk, 1 Dall. 357, 1 L.Ed. 174 (1788
- doctrine of sovereign immunity arrived in Pennsylvania in Respublica v. Sparhawk, 1 U.S. 357, 1 Dall. 357, 1 L.Ed. 174 (1788
- act of employee far outside’scope pf authority
Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).
Judges: Cheep, Clark, Goedon, Gordon, Green, Paxson, Sterrett, Trunkey, Williams
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63 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.
- Molitor v. Kaneland Community Unit District No. 302Illinois Supreme Court· 1959-12-16· cited 560×
- Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public EducationSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1973-05-23· cited 419×
- Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of HighwaysSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1978-07-14· cited 385×
- Scibilia v. PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1924-03-10· cited 100×
- Marshall v. Port AuthoritySupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-01-17· cited 91×
- Rader v. Pennsylvania Turnpike CommissionSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-08· cited 82×
- Daniels v. Board of EducationMichigan Supreme Court· 1916-06-01· cited 61×
- Minsinger v. RauSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1912-05-06· cited 58×
- William Penn School District v. Pennsylvania Department of EducationSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2017-09-28· cited 53×
- Briegel v. City of PhiladelphiaSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1890-05-28· cited 53×
- Morris v. Mount Lebanon Township School DistrictSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-09-29· cited 51×
- Zauflik, A., Aplt. v. Pennsbury School DistrictSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 2014-11-19· cited 45×
- Pittsburg v. Sterrett Subdistrict SchoolSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1903-01-05· cited 35×
- Barth v. Philadelphia School DistrictSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1958-07-25· cited 28×
- Wilkinsburg Borough v. Wilkinsburg Borough School DistrictSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1950-06-26· cited 25×
- Agostine v. Sch. Dist. of Phila.Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania· 1987-06-09· cited 25×
- Supler v. North Franklin Township School DistrictSupreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1962-06-28· cited 20×
- Cousins v. County of ButlerSuperior Court of Pennsylvania· 1919-10-13· cited 20×
- Ernst v. City of West CovingtonCourt of Appeals of Kentucky· 1903-11-19· cited 18×
- Paterlini v. Memorial Hospital Ass'n of Monongahela CityThird Circuit· 1918-01-21· cited 18×
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