2006 Pa. Super. 324 - Commonwealth v. Hart’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2023
8 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 Maleng v. Cook · Commonwealth v. Castillo · Mistick, Inc. v. Northwestern National Casualty Co. · Broussard v. Zoning Board of Adjustment of City of Pittsburgh · Commonwealth v. Halley
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As soon as his sentence is completed, the petitioner becomes ineligible for relief, regardless of whether he was serving his sentence when he filed the petition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Pennsylvania Rule of Criminal Procedure 114 provides that the clerk of courts shall promptly serve a copy of any order or court notice on each parly’s attorney, or the party if unrepresented. Pa.R.Crim.P. 114(B)(1)(2).... The rules provide that where a party is unrepresented, service shall be in writing by sending a copy of the order by certified, registered, or first class mail addressed to the party’s place of residence, business, or confinement. Pa. R.Crim.P. 114(B)(3)(a)(v). A docket entry shall promptly be made containing the date and manner of service of the order. Pa. R.Crim.P. 114(C).”
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.