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← 180 A3D 1256 - Commonwealth v. Cornelius

Commonwealth v. Cornelius’s Empirical Analysis

2018

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
June 2022
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. MacOlino · Commonwealth v. Johnson · 2015 Pa. Super. 13 - Commonwealth v. Gonzalez · 2009 Pa. Super. 148 - Commonwealth v. Judy · Commonwealth v. McAndrews

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “One way to ascertain the plain meaning and ordinary usage of terms is by reference to a dictionary definition.”
    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.