Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1990
20 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 179 Pa. Super. 501 - Commonwealth v. Aikens · Stevenson v. Ebervale Coal Co. · Allegro v. Rural Valley Mut. Fire Ins. · White v. Western Allegheny Railroad · Ryder v. Jacobs
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[A] witness may state relevant facts known to him, because of experience, even though he is not regarded as an expert whose opinion would be admissible on a hypothetical inquiry.” Commonwealth v. Harris, 186 Pa.Super. 59, 63 , 140 A.2d 344, 345 (1958).”
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.