260 Pa. Super. 57 - Commonwealth v. Epps’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2010
16 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 v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Musto · Commonwealth v. Robinson · Riggins Case · Maginnis's Case
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Re-arrest] is necessary only when all charges have been dismissed and no pri-ma facie case established. It does not encompass situations ... in which a pri-ma facie case has been established and a cognate crime is substituted in the indictment. Similarly, if a prima facie case has been found on one offense, an indictment may not be had for a separate, non-cognate offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when a prosecuting officer is satisfied from his investigations that a higher grade of offense, cognate to the one returned by the committing magistrate, is properly chargeable against a defendant, he may draw the bill accordingly.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t is clear that the crime charged in the indictment, robbery, was cognate to, and indeed identical with the charge imposed at the preliminary hearing, attempted robbery.”
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.