258 Pa. Super. 194 - Commonwealth v. Tolassi’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 340 Pa. Super. 318 - Commonwealth v. Hassine (1985), Commonwealth v. Tolassi (1980)
41 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 Barker v. Wingo · Roviaro v. United States · Irvin v. Dowd · Foster v. California · Commonwealth v. Kloiber
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) Whether the number of defendants or the complexity of the evidence as to the several defendants is such that the trier of fact probably will be unable to distinguish the evidence and apply the law intelligently as to the charges against each defendant; (2) Whether evidence not admissible against all the defendants probably will be considered against a defendant notwithstanding admonitory instructions; and (3) Whether there are antagonistic defenses.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Were we to include phrases like “I submit” and, “I suggest” among those forms of argument deemed improper, we would virtually destroy the Commonwealth’s recognized right to argue fair inferences arising from the evidence to the jury.” (Emphasis added.) Commonwealth v. Tolassi, 258 Pa.Super. at 209 , 392 A.2d at 758 .”
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.