Commonwealth v. DeWan’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Dial (1971), 362 Pa. Super. 176 - Commonwealth v. Westcott (1987)
26 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. Gardner · Morrison (Et Al.) v. Shealer · Commonwealth v. CERZULLO · 174 Pa. Super. 35 - Commonwealth v. Winter · 150 Pa. Super. 445 - Commonwealth v. Chuing
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever at night time maliciously loiters or maliciously prowls around a dwelling house . . . belonging to or occupied by another, is guilty of a misdemeanor . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`Malicious,' as used in this statute, has been defined to mean `[having] as its purpose injury to the privacy, person or property of another.' . . .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“LOITER. To be dilatory; to be slow in movement; to stand around or move slowly about; to stand idly around; to spend time idly; to saunter; to delay; to idle; to linger; to lag behind. [Collecting cases.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hill
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.