Commonwealth v. Stevens’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently July 2005 · most notably State v. Frazier (1981), 333 Pa. Super. 85 - Commonwealth v. Shirey (1984)
39 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 Rodriguez v. New York · Commonwealth v. Blair · Commonwealth v. Allen · Temple v. United States · Commonwealth v. Eiland
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[S]uch evidence is admissible where “such prior conviction or criminal act formed, a part of a chain, or was one of a sequence of acts, or became part of the history of the event on trial, or was part of the natural development of the facts.””
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.