267 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Plath’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
18
cited by 18 later decisions
1
states following
June 1998
most recently cited
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Clair · Commonwealth v. Blair · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Smith
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When there is no assurance that a witness can be procured, . . . then denial of a continuance is proper.”
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.