244 Pa. Super. 98 - Commonwealth v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently September 1996 · most notably Doctor v. Walters (1996), 289 Pa. Super. 126 - Commonwealth v. Harrison (1981)
2 federal appellate · 24 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 Estelle v. Dorrough · Allen v. State of Georgia · Smith v. United States · Selma and Meridian Railroad Company v. Louisiana National Bank of New Orleans · State v. Scott
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant who runs away after having been convicted of the charge or charges against him waives his right to a judicial review of his case. If he thereafter returns it is a matter of discretion of the court whether or not the circumstances justify a reinstatement of his post-trial motions or applications.... We find that the appellant by becoming a fugitive lost his right to a review of his post-trial motions and that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in refusing to consider the motions upon his return to the jurisdiction.”
1 later decision 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.