Commonwealth v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
2017
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
October 2025
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brady v. State of Maryland · Commonwealth v. Burke · Commonwealth v. Snyder · 2003 Pa. Super. 123 - Commonwealth v. Sullivan · 2013 Pa. Super. 185 - Commonwealth v. Kearns
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Article I, § 10 ... bars retrial ... when the conduct of the prosecutor is intentionally undertaken to prejudice the defendant to the point of the denial of a fair trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a fair trial is not simply a lofty goal, it is a constitutional mandate, ... and where that constitutional mandate is ignored by the Commonwealth, we cannot simply turn a blind eye and give the Commonwealth another opportunity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Byrd“whether a dismissal is warranted turns on whether the Commonwealth intended to deprive the defendant of a fair trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Byrd
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.