132 Pa. Super. 529 - Commonwealth v. Richman’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 1983
2 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Barrish · Turner v. Commonwealth · 128 Pa. Super. 544 - Wilson v. Malenock · 115 Pa. Super. 183 - Com. of Pa. v. Baker · 130 Pa. Super. 524 - Commonwealth v. Matteo
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant surrenders none of his substantive rights when he is tried by a judge without a Jury under the Act of 1935 and the trial judge is required to give consideration to, and is bound by, the same legal principles as a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.