255 Pa. Super. 409 - Commonwealth v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently April 1995
13 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Roviaro v. United States · Napue v. People of the State of Illinois · Irvin v. Dowd · Sheppard v. Maxwell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person is guilty of riot, a felony of the third degree, if he participates with two or more others in a course of disorderly conduct; “(1) with intent to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony or misdemeanor; “(2) with intent to prevent or coerce official action; or “(3) when the actor or any other participant to the knowledge of the actor uses or plans to use a firearm or other deadly weapon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Commonwealth v. Herr
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.