2003 Pa. Super. 145 - Commonwealth v. Carbo’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2021
11 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 Fay v. Noia · City of Hazleton v. City Council · Krupinski v. Vocational Technical School Eastern Northampton County · McNair's Petition · Commonwealth v. Hetherington
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n accused may be rearrested and prosecuted despite the dismissal of charges at the preliminary hearing. A finding by a committing magistrate that the Commonwealth has failed to establish a prima facie case is not a final determination, such as an acquittal, and only entitles the accused to his liberty for the present, leaving him subject to rearrest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Com. v. AG
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.