315 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Courts’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
23
cited by 23 later decisions
1
states following
December 1986
most recently cited
23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Campana
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“lapse of time in filing a PCHA petition is a factor in assessing its merits.”
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.