Commonwealth v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Singer v. Sheppard (1975), Commonwealth v. Ray (1972)
27 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 Maxwell v. Bishop · Gambone v. Commonwealth · Everhardt v. City of New Orleans · Commonwealth v. Melton · Hertz Drivurself Stations, Inc. v. Siggins
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If the order of the lower court be considered an acquittal, then the Commonwealth has no right to appeal, Commonwealth v. Hollinger, 170 Pa.Super. 180 , 84 A.2d 794 (1951); Commonwealth v. Lodge No. 148, L.O.O.M., 188 Pa.Super. 531 , 149 A.2d 565 (1959). Where, however, the question involved is purely one of law the Commonwealth may appeal from an adverse ruling in a criminal case. Gaskins Case, 430 Pa. 298, 305 , 244 A.2d 662, 666 (1968). For example, the Commonwealth may appeal where an indictment has been quashed, or judgment arrested after verdict of guilty, or from an order quashing the information, [footnotes omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(T)he requirement of protective headgear for the exposed operator bears a reasonable relationship to highway safety generally. It does not tax the intellect to comprehend that loose stones on the highway kicked up by passing vehicles, or fallen objects such as windblown tree branches, against which the operator of a closed vehicle has some protection, could so affect the operator of a motorcycle as to cause him momentarily to lose control and thus become a menace to other vehicles on the highway.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the order of the lower court be considered an acquittal, then the Commonwealth has no right to appeal.”
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.