Commonwealth v. Devlin’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 146 Pa. Super. 564 - Commonwealth v. Levy · Commonwealth v. Rouse
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““I do not wish to imply that when dealing with a victim who is a young child, the commonwealth must always prove the actual date of the crime .... . . . The fact that the victim cannot set a date for the crime should not necessarily be fatal to the Commonwealth’s ease, thus making the assailant virtually immune from prosecution.””
2 later decisions 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.