284 Pa. Super. 528 - Commonwealth v. Simms’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1983
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Bruton v. United States · Jackson v. Denno · Green v. United States · United States v. Jorn · United States v. Dinitz
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“long before the prosecutor could have had in his mind the thought of provoking a mistrial because of things not going his way.”
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.