2007 Pa. Super. 338 - Commonwealth v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2015
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Grant · Commonwealth v. Bomar · Kansas v. Colorado · Yardarm Restaurant, Inc. v. City of Pompano Beach · Commonwealth v. Meals
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abuse of discretion is not merely an error of judgment, but rather where the judgment is manifestly unreasonable or where the law is not applied or where the record shows that the action is a result of partiality, prejudice, bias or ill will.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“where the erroneously admitted evidence was merely cumulative of other untainted evidence”
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.