2004 Pa. Super. 167 - Commonwealth v. Leidig’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
2
states following
August 2011
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Smith v. Doe · Commonwealth v. Williams · 123 Wash. 2d 488 - State v. Ward · Gibbs v. Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole · State v. Bollig
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in terms of its effect upon a case, a plea of nolo contendere is treated the same as a guilty plea”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. VG
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.