263 Pa. Super. 191 - Commonwealth v. Steward’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably 347 Pa. Super. 37 - Commonwealth v. Tessel (1985), 267 Pa. Super. 451 - Commonwealth v. Ostolaza (1979)
36 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. Clair · Commonwealth v. Turza · Commonwealth v. Carbonetto · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Burton
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[p]erhaps if the two crimes were distinct, in time or nature or both, the case would be different.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““The grounds on which the rule rests are the hasty and unguarded character which is often attached to confessions and admissions and the consequent danger of a conviction where no crime has in fact been committed 11”
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.