Commonwealth v. Hackett’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently January 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Colon (1975), 346 Pa. Super. 77 - Commonwealth v. Cieri (1985)
45 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Washington v. Texas · In re Oliver · Donnelly v. United States · Lego v. Twomey
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) exculpate the defendant from the crime for which he is charged; (2) are inherently trustworthy in that they are written or orally made to reliable persons of authority or those having adverse interests to the declarant; and (3) they are made pre-trial or during the trial itself. 4 Id., 225 Pa.Superior Ct. at 29, 30, 307 A.2d at 338 .”
8 later decisions 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.