2007 Pa. Super. 50 - Commonwealth v. Schmidt’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2022
6 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. Bracalielly · Commonwealth v. Brady · Commonwealth v. Failor · 2004 Pa. Super. 396 - Commonwealth v. Davidson · 454 Pa. Super. 605 - Commonwealth v. Mattis
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose behind Section 110 is two-fold. “First, it protects a defendant from the governmental harassment of being subjected to successive trials for offenses stemming from the same criminal episode. Secondly, the rule assures finality without unduly burdening the judicial process by repetitious litigation.” Commonwealth v. Gimbara, 835 A.2d 371, 373-74 (Pa.Super.2003) (citing Commonwealth v. Failor, 564 Pa. 642, 647 , 770 A.2d 310, 313 (2001)). Generally speaking, a four-part test is used to determine whether a prosecution is barred by 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 110(l)(ii)....”
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.