304 Pa. Super. 382 - Commonwealth v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably 337 Pa. Super. 548 - Commonwealth v. Black (1985), 394 Pa. Super. 327 - Smith v. Brooks (1990)
27 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Kirchberg v. Feenstra · Logan v. Zimmerman Brush Co.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it would so inflame the minds of the jurors that its probative value is outweighed by unfair prejudice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]t would so inflame the minds of the jurors that its probative value is outweighed by unfair prejudice. Because no rigid rule might be formulated to embrace the infinite range of evidence which might be proffered, and because the trial judge is in a far superior position to assess any possible prejudicial effect on the jury, we will not reverse the trial court’s decision on admissibility absent abuse of discretion.”
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.