278 Pa. Super. 83 - Commonwealth v. Baranyai’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2021
17 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. Goosby · Commonwealth v. England · Commonwealth v. Gilman · Commonwealth v. Banks · Commonwealth v. Phillips
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The information is, or ought to be, ‘the star and compass of a criminal trial,’ and ‘must be notification to the defendant of the charge he has to meet.’ It must be read in a common-sense manner and is not to be construed in an overly technical sense. It is mandatory that the accused be informed thereby of the crime with which he has been charged. Thus, it should contain ‘a plain and concise statement of the essential elements of the offense ...’ ... Pa.R.Crim.P. 225(b).”
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.