Commonwealth v. McKenna’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2019 · most notably Powers v. Ohio (1991), Commonwealth v. Chmiel (1999)
6 federal appellate · 26 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. Williams · 187 Pa. Super. 206 - Commonwealth v. Horvath · Commonwealth v. Edwards · Doll v. Loesel · Estate of Dowie
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the right to assert the privilege is that of the client.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Second, Dietz in his testimony had criticized the capabilities and efforts of his trial attorney. The privilege was not available to silence the attorney as he rebutted the attacks on his professional competence. Doll v. Loesel, 288 Pa. 527 , 136 A. 796 (1927).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berger v. Wood
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.