Commonwealth v. Cody’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2018
24 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 181 Pa. Super. 382 - Commonwealth v. O'BRIEN · Blackman v. Commonwealth · 165 Pa. Super. 41 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Geisel v. Ashe · 177 Pa. Super. 470 - Commonwealth v. Russo · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Scasserra v. Maroney
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The defendant] should be informed before trial why the statute of limitation has no application. The opportunity to prepare a defense against such allegation should be given to the same extent as the opportunity to defend against the accusation of crime itself. Were it otherwise, no attack, preliminary to trial, could ever be made on this ground, and if made during or subsequent to trial, an accused would be faced with the well-established rule that an attack on an indictment will not be considered after a plea is entered and the jury is sworn.”
4 later decisions 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.