Commonwealth v. Burton’s Empirical Analysis
2015
Citation profile
139
cited by 139 later decisions
1
states following
April 2024
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Commonwealth v. Peterkin · American Casualty Co. of Reading v. Phico Insurance · Commonwealth v. Lark · Commonwealth v. Bennett
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Due diligence requires neither perfect vigilance nor punctilious care, but rather it requires reasonable efforts by a petitioner, based on the particular circumstances, to uncover facts that may support a claim for collateral relief.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“determine whether the PCRA court erred in concluding that there were no genuine issues of material fact and in denying relief without an evidentiary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hart“(1) the facts upon which the claim [is] predicated were unknown and (2) could not have been ascertained by the exercise of due diligence .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hart
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.