255 Pa. Super. 289 - Commonwealth v. Aaron’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
1
states following
July 1986
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Wade · Neil v. Biggers · Stovall v. Denno · Manson v. Brathwaite · Kirby v. Illinois
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The primary reason for the admissibility of such confrontations is that the close proximity in time and place to the actual offense so enhances the reliability as to outweigh the prejudice.”
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.