Falone Appeal’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Only the ‘Attorney General’ is designated as the petitioning party so that he is the only party to the proceeding and under Rules 206 and 1024 of the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure he should have been the one to verify the facts contained in the petition unless cogent reasons were set forth as to why his verification does not appear. “To be effective in this petition, this verification by one other than the Attorney General must set forth the reasons why the petitioner, the Attorney General, failed to take the affidavit, the basis for the third parties’ [sic] authority to take the affidavit and the nature and source of the knowledge upon which the verification is based.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Falone

2. ““[S]erious Fifth Amendment rights are involved in that under the Pennsylvania Immunity Act a person can be compelled to give testimony against himself. It follows that a statute conferring such power must be strictly construed by the government in order to minimize the judicial abuse of power which could occur otherwise. . [Bjecause of [the Act’s] exceptional, nature and because it deals with basic constitutional rights, it must certainly require strict construction.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Falone

3. ““A judge of any court of record shall not, in any matter, case, hearing, or proceeding before him, receive or consider any petition, or paper in the nature of a petition, alleging any matter of fact, unless the petition or paper is duly verified as to such allegations.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 266 Pa. Super. 549 - Monroe Contract Corp. v. Harrison Square, Inc.