2016 Pa. Super. 38 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2020
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Widmer · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Clay · Commonwealth v. Grazier
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.
“The legal principles relevant to a claim of prosecutorial misconduct are well established. Comments by a prosecutor constitute reversible error only where their unavoidable effect is to prejudice the jury, forming in [the jurors’] minds a fixed bias and hostility toward the defendant such that they could not weigh the evidence objectively and render a fair verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“allegations in the media, whether true or false, are no more evidence than allegations in any other out-of-court situation. Nothing in these allegations even read in the broadest sense, can be described as 'evidence' ....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.