160 Pa. Super. 88 - Commonwealth v. Nowalk’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1990 · most notably 164 Pa. Super. 516 - Commonwealth v. Krick (1949), 262 Pa. Super. 540 - Commonwealth v. Gore (1978)
23 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. Spardute · Commonwealth v. Stallone · Commonwealth v. Gardner · Morrison (Et Al.) v. Shealer · 157 Pa. Super. 500 - Selden, Admr. v. Metro. Life Ins. Co.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[n]o fixed time or distance from the event can be established. . . . Each case must depend on its own circumstances.”
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.