Commonwealth v. BUZAK’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2013 · most notably 282 Pa. Super. 100 - Commonwealth v. Bidner (1980), 300 Pa. Super. 72 - Commonwealth v. Burkett (1982)
3 federal appellate · 32 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. Moon · Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Litman · 107 Pa. Super. 129 - Com. v. Falls and Sykes · Commonwealth v. Wright
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is the policy of the law not to permit prosecutions under the general provisions of a penal code when there are applicable special penal provisions available.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is a canon of statutory construction that where words of a later statute differ from those of a previous one on the same subject, they presumably are intended to have a different construction.” Com. v. Buzak, 197 Pa. Superior Ct. 514, 517 , 179 A. 2d 248, 250 (1962). See also Com. v. Moon, 383 Pa. 18 , 117 A. 2d 96 (1955).”
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.