Commonwealth v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
July 1995
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Young
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[O]n an appeal from the judgment of a justice' of the peace in summary conviction proceedings, the judgment of the Court of Common Pleas should be either ‘guilty’ or ‘not guilty’; a judgment affirming the justice of the peace, dismissing the appeal, or sustaining the appeal, is not sufficient and will be reversed.”
2 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.