245 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Markle’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 1990
20 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. Robson · Commonwealth v. Rankin · Commonwealth v. Portalatin · 229 Pa. Super. 67 - Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The answer given by the witness was not at all responsive to the question asked him. The attorney for the Commonwealth was making no attempt to establish appellant’s connection, whatever it may have been, with Graterford prison or that he had a prior criminal record. There was no probing into appellant’s incarceration there. The immediate curative instruction by the trial judge was in keeping with Commonwealth v. Robson, 461 Pa. 615 , 337 A.2d 573 (1975). There was nothing dramatic or emotionally inflammatory such as might not enable a jury to follow the judge’s instruction to disregard this answer of the witness. Commonwealth v. Brown, 444 Pa. 318 , 282 A.2d 364 (1971). This isolated reference considered in the light of the trial judge’s prompt corrective action could not be said to have prejudiced appellant’s trial. See Commonwealth v. Black, 464 Pa. 604 , 347 A.2d 705 (1975). (Emphasis added).”
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.