Commonwealth v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2022 · most notably 241 Pa. Super. 450 - Commonwealth v. Coleman (1976), 242 Pa. Super. 517 - Commonwealth v. Merlo (1976)
29 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. Fisher · 79 N.J. Super. 379 - State v. West · 18 Ill. App. 3d 527 - People v. Leonard
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . that for good cause shown ... the court having jurisdiction of the matter may grant any necessary or reasonable continuance.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(e) If trial is not had on any indictment, information or complaint contemplated hereby prior to the prisoner’s being returned to the original place of imprisonment pursuant to article V.(e) hereof, such indictment, information or complaint shall not be of any further force or effect, and the court shall enter an order dismissing the same with prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“... it is unimportant whether delay is occasioned by the prosecutor's office or by the court; so long as the delay is neither reasonable nor necessary, and not occasioned by the defendant, the legislative policy must be heeded.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Nelms v. State
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.