263 Pa. Super. 349 - Commonwealth v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2011 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wexler (1981), Commonwealth v. Armstrong (1981)
48 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 Dale B. Menard v. John N. Mitchell and John Edgar Hoover · 244 Pa. Super. 62 - Commonwealth v. Malone · Utz v. Cullinane
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 judicial remedy of expunction is an adjunct to the inherent rights of Due Process and is not dependent on express statutory authority. However, expunction is proper only in cases where acquittal is consistent with a finding of real innocence and is not a result of legal technicalities unrelated to questions of guilt or innocence.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.