Commonwealth v. Lambert’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably 263 Pa. Super. 206 - Commonwealth v. Madison (1979), 240 Pa. Super. 458 - Commonwealth v. Landy (1976)
2 federal appellate · 37 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. Simione · Commonwealth v. Marlin · Commonwealth v. Petrillo · Commonwealth v. Aurick · Commonwealth v. Stroik
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[b]y specifically charging the manner by which [Lambert] was alleged to have corrupted the morals of these minors, the Commonwealth was required to prove that [he] did furnish them with dangerous drugs.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]n criminal trials[,] the proof offered by the Commonwealth must measure up to the charge made in the indictment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Whoever, being of the age of 18 years and upwards, by any act corrupts or tends to corrupt the morals of any child under the age of 18 years, or who aids, abets, entices or encourages any such child in the commission of any crime, or who knowingly assists or encourages such child in violating his or her parole or any order of court, is guilty of a misdemeanor. . .”
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.