Commonwealth v. ROTHLISBERGER’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently August 1995
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 · Miller v. Exeter Borough · Lyke v. Lehigh Valley Railroad · 177 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Weinstein · 129 Pa. Super. 22 - Commonwealth v. Goetz
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.
“to be similar to where a witness orally describes someone she wishes later to identify and records her description whether by tape recorder, written memorandum, by the memory of someone else hearing it, or as in this case, by an artist's sketch.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“have been accepted as part of the res gestae when made at, or shortly after, the time of the event.”
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.