304 Pa. Super. 248 - Commonwealth v. Lynch’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably 329 Pa. Super. 42 - Commonwealth v. Gordon (1984), 346 Pa. Super. 129 - Commonwealth v. Martin (1985)
33 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. Blair · Commonwealth v. Young · Commonwealth v. Gravely · 285 Pa. Super. 475 - Commonwealth v. Rini · Commonwealth v. Grace
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except as otherwise provided or prescribed by law, a court upon notice to the parties may modify or rescind any order within 30 days after its entry, notwithstanding the prior termination of any term of court, if no appeal from such order has been taken or allowed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ljeaving motions in the judge’s chambers, or even handing a copy to the judge in the courtroom or elsewhere, does not constitute filing. A document in any criminal matter must be filed in the office of the clerk of courts, 42 Pa.C.S. § 2756(a), who in Philadelphia is known as the Clerk of Quarter Sessions. 42 Pa.C.S. § 2751(c).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Although abide by the supreme court’s decisions we must, we simply do not read [Commonwealth v.] Jones [, 478 Pa. 172 , 386 A.2d 495 (1978) ] to place upon this court the obligation of expending time, effort and man power to scout around the prothonotaries’ offices in fifty-nine courts of common pleas to unearth briefs that may have been "presented” to the courts, but not made part of the records, in an effort to find defendants’ assertions of error preserved. We interpret Jones to require that if a defendant presents a memorandum or brief to the post-trial motions court, and, whether filed with the clerk or not, it is included in the record certified to us, then we are constrained to find his assertions preserved and to rule upon them. Absent that, we do not feel compelled to exert this court’s energies engaging in a hunting expedition. Until mandated to do so, we will not. (Footnote omitted) (Quoted with approval in Commonwealth v. Lynch, 304 Pa.Super. 248, 254 , 450 A.2d 664, 667 (1982).)”
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.