250 Pa. Super. 66 - Commonwealth v. Kovacs’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably State v. Hicks (1979), 79 Ohio App. 3d 705 - State v. Howard (1992)
60 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 Barker v. Wingo · Commonwealth v. Shelton · Commonwealth v. Hamilton · Commonwealth v. Mitchell · Commonwealth v. O'Shea
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“during which he contested extradition, or a responding jurisdiction delayed or refused to grant extradition.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Implicit in our decision in Richbourgh , however, was the recognition that a defendant will be considered unavailable only for the period of time during which his presence could not be secured despite due diligence by the Commonwealth” 250 Pa.Super. 70 , 378 A.2d at 457 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]rial in a court case in which a written complaint is filed against the defendant after June 30, 1974 shall commence no later than one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the complaint is filed.”
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.