Commonwealth v. Litman’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 1988
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 Commonwealth v. Brown · 160 Pa. Super. 104 - Commonwealth v. Shimpeno · 107 Pa. Super. 129 - Com. v. Falls and Sykes
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.
“It is the policy of the law not to permit prosecutions under the general provisions of a penal code when there are special penal provisions available: Commonwealth v. Brown, 346 Pa. 192, 199 , 29 A.2d 793, 796-797 ; Commonwealth v. Litman, 187 Pa.Super. 537, 543 , 144 A.2d 592, 595 (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.