158 Pa. Super. 484 - Commonwealth v. Duerr’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 1988 · most notably Commonwealth Ex Rel. Spencer v. Ashe (1950), Commonwealth v. Comber (1953)
6 federal appellate · 18 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 McCarthy v. De Armit · Commonwealth v. Micuso · Commonwealth v. Greevy · Hilands v. Commonwealth · Wiley v. State
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A private person present when a felony is committed may also arrest a felon without a warrant. Otherwise, society would be in danger as it is often necessary that a felon who is about to commit a robbery, murder, etc., be arrested on the spot or allowed to escape. Brooks v. Commonwealth, 61 Pa. 352 .” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“normally causes or threatens death or serious harm”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Qualls v. Parrish
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.