Swisher v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably Schmitt v. Commonwealth (2000), Juniper v. Com. (2006)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 43 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Schneckloth v. Bustamonte · Oregon v. Mathiason · Soberon v. United States · Beckwith 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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying Swisher’s motion. The indictment adequately informed Swisher of the charged offenses, and we are of opinion Swisher did not wish to use the bill to challenge the sufficiency of the indictment, but, as he had admitted in his brief, he desired the bill of particulars for other reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“2 Although the medical examiner who testified at trial was unable to determine conclusively whether Snyder's throat had been cut because animals had eaten her larynx, trachea, and the large arteries and veins in the neck, he testified that her death was the result of”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Swisher v. True“must specify with reasonable certainty and definiteness the conduct which is commanded or prohibited ... so that a person of ordinary intelligence may know what is thereby required of him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Robinson v. Com.
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.