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← 284 Pa. Super. 528 - Commonwealth v. Simms

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.

  1. “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.