293 Pa. Super. 319 - Commonwealth v. McNeill’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2007
10 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. Riggins · 264 Pa. Super. 414 - Commonwealth v. Herstine · 269 Pa. Super. 502 - Commonwealth v. Longo · 279 Pa. Super. 93 - Commonwealth v. Jones
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Escape — A person commits an offense if he lawfully removes himself from official detention or fails to return to official detention following temporary leave granted for a specific purpose or limited period. (d) Grading— (1) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree where: (1) the actor was under arrest for or detained on the charge of felony or following conviction of crime; (ii) the actor employs force, threat, deadly weapon or other dangerous instrumentality to effect the escape; or (iii) a public servant concerned in detention of persons convicted of crime intentionally facilitates or permits an escape from a detention facility. (2) Otherwise an offense under this section is a misdemeanor of the second degree.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“First count — that on on or about February 24, 1979 in Philadelphia County, Reginald McNeill did unlawfully remove himself from official detention following temporary leave granted for a specific purpose or limited period.”
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.