276 Pa. Super. 543 - Commonwealth v. Eisemann’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably 304 Pa. Super. 297 - Commonwealth v. Malloy (1982), 417 Pa. Super. 233 - Commonwealth v. Spells (1992)
45 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 Holt v. Alleghany Corp. · United States v. Cox · Piscanio Appeal
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . The [private] prosecutor .. . even as a victim . . . has no legitimate interest, other than as a member of the general public, in seeing a violator of the laws brought to justice by the Commonwealth and punished for his misdeeds. If a private prosecutor feels individually harmed his remedy is a civil suit for damages.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““Rule 133(B)(3)(ii) simply allows the complainant to file the disapproved complaint with a judge of a court of common pleas for approval or disapproval. The court is not required by this rule to grant a hearing; the additional procedure merely gives the private prosecutor the opportunity to have his complaint reviewed following an adverse decision by the district attorney.” Piscanio at 495-496, 344 A.2d at 661, n.5 . See also, Eisemann at 545, 419 A.2d 592 , n.4; Wood at 601 , 482 A.2d at 1036, n.3 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . and the offense(s) charged include(s) a misdemeanor or felony which does not involve a clear and present danger to any person or to the community,. . . .”
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.