252 Pa. Super. 228 - Commonwealth v. Cluck’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 329 Pa. Super. 148 - Commonwealth v. Balisteri (1984), 2004 Pa. Super. 148 - Commonwealth v. Reaser (2004)
42 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 United States v. Marion · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Bouie v. City of Columbia · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Rewis v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all statutes and embodiments of the common law which establish, create or define crimes or offenses including any ordinances which may provide for imprisonment upon conviction or upon failure to pay a fine or penalty.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“clear and unequivocal warning in language that people generally would understand as to what actions would expose them to liability for penalties and what the penalties would be.”
2 later decisions 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.