266 Pa. Super. 340 - Commonwealth v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2025
10 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. Mitchell · 250 Pa. Super. 250 - Commonwealth v. Byrd · 256 Pa. Super. 366 - Commonwealth v. Jones · 248 Pa. Super. 206 - Commonwealth v. Martofel · 344 Pa. Super. 362 - Commonwealth v. Hatten
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although appellant, known as “Philly Dog,” had a police record and was on probation, the record reflects that no effort was made to secure information or cooperation of the probation and parole offices. No effort was made to secure cooperation of out-of-county police departments, even though the prosecution was aware from the start that appellant had fled after the criminal episode. Even after being informed by the state parole officer of the Philadelphia address, and the corroboration of appellant’s presence there by his mother in February, Pittsburgh officials made no contact with Philadelphia authorities until two months later. Id., 266 Pa.Superior at 346, 404 A.2d at 1323 .”
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.