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312 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Chandler’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
November 1984
most recently cited

8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Calandra · Elkins v. United States · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Commonwealth v. Davis

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “No person ... shall be discharged nor shall any case be dismissed because of any informal defects in the complaint, citation, summons or warrant, but the complaint, citation, summons or warrant, may be amended at any time so as to remedy any such informality.”
    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.