192 Pa. Super. 498 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1993
16 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. Jones
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a criminal case tried without a jury, . . . the verdict rendered by the trial judge is a general verdict “. . . as if the defendant had put himself upon the inquest or country for trial, and his cause were being tried before a jury ...” Therefore, after recording such a verdict, the authority of the trial judge over it would be the same as in the case of a verdict by a jury . . .”
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.