222 Pa. Super. 296 - Commonwealth v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Santiago (1975), 282 Pa. Super. 115 - Commonwealth v. Andrews (1980)
51 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Linkletter v. Walker · United States of America Ex Rel. Harry E. Carey v. A. T. Rundle, Supt. · Commonwealth v. Richardson · 175 Pa. Super. 100 - Commonwealth v. Shaffer
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"In any case not yet final if the offense is similar to one set out in this act, the penalties under this act apply if they are less than those under prior law."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knowingly or intentionally possessing a controlled . . . substance.”
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.