254 Pa. Super. 267 - Commonwealth v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wojdak (1983), 335 Pa. Super. 560 - Commonwealth v. Garvin (1984)
49 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Sisak · Commonwealth v. Hetherington · Commonwealth v. Turner · Commonwealth v. Segers
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Likewise, once an indictment has been approved the preliminary proceedings are not subject to either direct or collateral attack because the defendant has been afforded an independent determination that a prima facie case exists.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] criminal conviction can be sustained solely on the basis of uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice.”
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.