293 Pa. Super. 391 - Commonwealth v. Blaker’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably 342 Pa. Super. 215 - In Re SO (1985), 304 Pa. Super. 131 - In Re Condry (1982)
25 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 Addington v. Texas · O'Connor v. Donaldson · Humphrey v. Cady · In Re Gross · Commonwealth v. Walker
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(g) Petition to Common Pleas Court.—In all cases in which the hearing was conducted by a mental health review officer, a person made subject to treatment pursuant to this section shall have the right to petition the court of common pleas for review of the certification. A hearing shall be held within 72 hours after the petition is filed unless a continuance is requested by the person’s counsel. The hearing shall include a review of the certification and such evidence as the court may receive or require. If the court determines that further involuntary treatment is necessary and that the procedures prescribed by this act have been followed, it shall deny the petition. Otherwise, the person shall be discharged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“§ 7301. Persons who may be subject to involuntary emergency examination and treatment (a) Persons Subject. — Whenever a person is severely mentally disabled and in need of immediate treatment, he may be made subject to involuntary emergency examination and treatment. A person is severely mentally disabled when, as a result of mental illness, his capacity to exercise self-control, judgment and discretion in the conduct of his affairs and social relations or to care for his own personal needs is so lessened that he poses a clear and present danger of harm to others or to himself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. In re Woodside“It is not enough to find, . . . that appellant `was truly in need of the services offered by [the] mental health system.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.