268 Pa. Super. 472 - Commonwealth v. Sojourner’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably State v. Odom (1989), 364 Pa. Super. 521 - Commonwealth v. Gordon (1987)
37 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 Terry v. Ohio · Bruton v. United States · Barnes v. United States · Commonwealth v. Jeffries · Commonwealth v. McNeil
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Misconduct in the courtroom is a serious matter. The onus is on the trial judge to avert or cure it: (I)t is the duty of the court to see that trial proceedings are conducted in an orderly manner and any disturbance or outbursts should be checked immediately by the court [on] its own motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.