142 Pa. Super. 591 - Commonwealth v. Unkrich’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 1991 · most notably Commonwealth v. Koczwara (1959), 341 Pa. Super. 183 - Commonwealth v. Heck (1985)
3 federal appellate · 29 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 105 Pa. Super. 467 - Commonwealth of Pa. v. Schambers
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Before one can be convicted of a crime his case must plainly and unmistakably come within the provisions of the statute. ‘A statute that either forbids or requires the doing of an act in terms so vague that men of common intelligence must guess as to its meaning and differ as to its application lacks the first essential of due process of law.’ [citation omitted]”
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.