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← 246 Pa. Super. 30 - Commonwealth v. Sexton

246 Pa. Super. 30 - Commonwealth v. Sexton’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

24
cited by 24 later decisions
2
states following
April 1984
most recently cited

24 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Wade · Commonwealth v. Richman · Commonwealth v. Evans · United States of America Ex Rel. James R. Riffert v. Alfred T. Rundle, Superintendent · Commonwealth v. MacKey

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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “An eyewitness to the robbery knew appellant by name, and on this basis appellant was arrested two days later.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
  2. “lineup might have been best in this case.”
    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.