273 Pa. Super. 361 - Commonwealth v. Weakland’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently November 2007 · most notably 325 Pa. Super. 401 - Commonwealth v. Hamm (1984), 328 Pa. Super. 35 - Commonwealth v. Bell (1984)
29 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 Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Story · Commonwealth v. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Martin · Commonwealth v. Allen
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where ... this Court is convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that the error did not contribute to the verdict, we may hold that reversal is not required because the error was harmless. Commonwealth v. Story, 476 Pa. 391, 38 [3] A.2d 155 (1978). In the instant case, although Trooper Fedin’s testimony supported an inference that appellant had previously engaged in criminal activity, that inference was innocuous in view of the great volume of other evidence presented at trial and was, therefore, harmless error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.