272 Pa. Super. 149 - Commonwealth v. Dorman’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently December 2004 · most notably Frazier v. City of Philadelphia (1999), 285 Pa. Super. 241 - Turner v. May Corp. (1981)
44 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 250 Pa. Super. 194 - Provident National Bank v. Rooklin · Commonwealth v. Rosmon · 257 Pa. Super. 542 - Strickler v. United Elevator Co., Inc. · 260 Pa. Super. 77 - Commonwealth v. Wilkinson · 245 Pa. Super. 1 - Polascik v. Baldwin
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) General Rule. (1) Except as otherwise prescribed in this rule, in computing any period of time under these rules involving the date of entry of an order by a court or other government unit, the day of entry shall be the day the clerk of the court or the office of the government unit mails or delivers copies of the order to the parties, or if such delivery is not otherwise required by law, the day the clerk or office of the government unit makes such copies public. The day of entry of an order may be the day of its adoption by the court or other government unit, or any subsequent day, as required by the actual circumstances.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . [T]he filing of a motion for modification of sentence . .. do[es] not affect the running of the thirty day period for filing a timely notice of appeal, and the need for the defendant to file his appeal (both as to the merits of the case or as to the sentence) within that period.”
2 later decisions 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.