229 Pa. Super. 67 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently September 2004 · most notably Commonwealth v. Goldblum (1982), Commonwealth v. Ackerman (1976)
31 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. Petrillo · Commonwealth v. DiPasquale · 116 Pa. Super. 180 - Commonwealth v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. Green · 113 Pa. Super. 598 - Com. of Pa. v. Fahey
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may allow an indictment to be amended where there is a defect in form, the description of the offense, the description of any person or any property, or the date charged provided the indictment as amended does not charge an additional or different offense. Upon amendment the court may grant such a postponement of trial or other relief as is necessary in the interests of justice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the test for a sufficient indictment is whether the defendant is notified of the charge he is to meet.”
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.