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2008 Pa. Super. 182 - Commonwealth v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis

2008

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 2025
most recently cited

6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Jorn · Arizona v. Washington · United States v. Dinitz · Illinois v. Somerville · United States v. Josef Perez

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.

  1. “Arizona v. Washington, 434 U.S. 497, 513-514 , 98 S.Ct. 824 , 54 L.Ed.2d 717 (1978). From his or her vantage point, the trial judge is the best arbiter of prejudice, because he or she has had the opportunity to observe the jurors, the witnesses, and the attorneys and evaluate the scope of the prejudice. Id.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Rule 605. Mistrial [[Image here]] (B) When an event prejudicial to the defendant occurs during trial only the defendant may move for a mistrial; the motion shall be made when the event is disclosed. Otherwise, the trial judge may declare a mistrial only for reasons of manifest necessity.”
    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.