300 Pa. Super. 72 - Commonwealth v. Burkett’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 346 Pa. Super. 129 - Commonwealth v. Martin (1985), 356 Pa. Super. 299 - Commonwealth v. Gray (1986)
44 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. Kane · 282 Pa. Super. 100 - Commonwealth v. Bidner · Commonwealth v. BUZAK · Commonwealth v. Sweet · Commonwealth v. Slider
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) General rule. — No person shall authorize or permit a motor vehicle owned by him or under his control to be driven in violation of any of the provisions of this Title. (b) Penalty. — Any person violating the provisions of subsection (a) is guilty of the same offense as the driver of such vehicle and subject to the same penalties____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.