233 Pa. Super. 38 - Commonwealth v. Dunlap’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 19 Cal. 3d 255 - People v. Superior Court (Greer) (1977), Commonwealth v. Briggs (2011)
35 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 Oyler v. Boles · United States v. Cox · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Whitling v. Russell · Commonwealth v. Potter · Commonwealth v. Reid
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant does not have a right not to be prosecuted; he does, however, have a right to have his case reviewed by an administrator of justice with his mind on the public purpose, not by an advocate whose judgment may be blurred by subjective reasons.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"By its very nature, [the] discretion [vested in the prosecutor] is a subjective exercise; seldom is the motive for decision on record. . . . Our society can tolerate a system that allows such an accretion of power despite the limited ability to review the decisionmaking process because we charge the district attorney . . . with a high ethical standard. That standard the exercise of his `judicial capacity' is breached not only by actual conflict of interest, but also by actions which have the appearance of conflict of interest."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“standards are intended as guides for the conduct of lawyers and as the basis for disciplinary action, not as criteria for the judicial evaluation of prosecutorial misconduct to determine the validity of a conviction ...,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sinclair 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.