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264 Pa. Super. 281 - Commonwealth v. Joines’s Empirical Analysis

1980

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
October 1995
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Commonwealth v. Story · Commonwealth v. Katchmer · 247 Pa. Super. 99 - Commonwealth v. Kindness · Commonwealth v. Ross

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “When a defendant is accepted into the program of accelerated rehabilitative disposition after information or indictment, the judge shall order that further proceedings on the charges shall be postponed during the term of the program.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “[T]he jury should be allowed to evaluate whether the witness testified for the prosecution to gain favorable treatment in his own case.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “[N]ot only was the prosecutor able to promise [the witness] leniency, he provided him with leniency.”
    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.