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← 251 Pa. Super. 365 - Commonwealth v. Fallings

251 Pa. Super. 365 - Commonwealth v. Fallings’s Empirical Analysis

1977

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
August 1988
most recently cited

14 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Dardi v. United States · Commonwealth v. Dancer · Commonwealth v. Twiggs

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

  1. “was based on a reassessment of its [the witness's testimony] worth and a conclusion that it was of little or no value”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “the result of sloth or lack of awareness of available alternatives,”
    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.