246 Pa. Super. 23 - Commonwealth v. Tolbert’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2018
16 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 Chapman v. State of California · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Jones v. Nor-Tex Agencies, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Dancer · United States v. DeCoster
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he right of the accused to participate in the selection of the jury panel is an essential ingredient of a jury trial under the Pennsylvania Constitution.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. of Pa. v. Diaz“during the selection of the jury, along with his right to be present during every other phase of the trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. of Pa. v. Diaz“understandably irritated at the turn of events.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. of Pa. v. Diaz
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.