269 Pa. Super. 43 - Commonwealth v. Hinton’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Burton (2015), 296 Pa. Super. 441 - Commonwealth v. Miranda (1982)
40 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 · 233 Pa. Super. 396 - Commonwealth v. Donnelly · Commonwealth v. Cunningham · 222 Pa. Super. 127 - Commonwealth v. Whitehouse · 256 Pa. Super. 366 - Commonwealth v. Jones
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he test is not a venture into hindsight reasoning as to whether, if certain individuals had been contacted, or other things done, an arrest would probably have been made. The matters of availability and due diligence must be judged by what was done by the authorities rather than [by] what was not done. The standard of due diligence demands only reasonable efforts.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is not the function of our courts to second-guess the methods used by police to locate accused persons. The analysis to be employed is whether, considering the information available to the police, they have acted with diligence in attempting to locate the accused. Deference must be afforded the police officer’s judgment as to which avenues of approach will be fruitful. 472 Pa. at 566 , 372 A.2d at 832 ; quoted in Brinton, supra; Erby, supra; and Commonwealth v. Hinton, 269 Pa.Super. 43 , 409 A.2d 54 (1979).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Trial in a court case in which a written complaint is filed against the defendant after June 30, 1974 shall commence no later than one hundred eighty (180) days from the date on which the complaint is filed.”
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.