247 Pa. Super. 429 - Commonwealth v. Rines’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 2010 · most notably 364 Pa. Super. 521 - Commonwealth v. Gordon (1987), 362 Pa. Super. 328 - Commonwealth v. Meo (1987)
2 federal appellate · 29 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 Faretta v. California · Coleman v. Alabama · Commonwealth v. Hawkins · Commonwealth v. Grayson · 208 Pa. Super. 523 - Commonwealth v. KUBACKI
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny argument based on a distinction between police and civilian witnesses is precluded by Commonwealth v. Swierczewski, [supra ].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is, of course, well settled that a defendant is entitled to the effective assistance of counsel at a preliminary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ditch v. Grace“so that he may uncover inconsistencies between a witness' pre-trial statements and his testimony at trial.”
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.