316 Pa. Super. 215 - Commonwealth v. Buehl’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Fenstermaker (1987), Capital Cities Media, Inc. v. Toole (1984)
41 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 Southern Pacific Terminal Company v. Interstate Commerce Commission · Branzburg v. Hayes · Weinstein v. Bradford · Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Globe Newspaper Company v. Superior Court for County of Norfolk
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the challenged action [is] in its duration too short to be fully litigated prior to its cessation or expiration, and (2) there [is] a reasonable expectation that the same complaining party [will] be subjected to the same action again”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In Gannett Co. v. DePasquale, 443 U.S. 368 [ 99 S.Ct. 2898 , 61 L.Ed.2d 608 ] [ (1979) ], the United States Supreme Court held that the public has no right under the sixth amendment to attend pretrial proceedings in a criminal case. That case is not controlling here, for appellant invokes not the sixth but the first amendment. In Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia [ 448 U.S. 555 , 100 S.Ct. 2814 , 65 L.Ed.2d 973 (1980) ], the Court held that the public has the right under the first amendment to attend the trial in a criminal case; the Court did not consider the public’s right to attend a pretrial proceeding. Therefore, that case is not controlling either. However, in United States v. Criden [ 675 F.2d 550 (3d Cir.1982) ], the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that the same societal interests and structural arguments that mandated a first amendment right of access to criminal trials in Richmond Newspapers apply with equal force to pretrial criminal proceedings. [Criden,] 675 F.2d at 557 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“For if the contraband, or the defendant’s confession, or the identification testimony is suppressed, the prosecution may be over, but if not suppressed, conviction may be so certain that a guilty plea ensues. The decisive event in a prosecution is therefore often not the trial but the pretrial proceeding. If justice is to be done, and is to be seen as done, if the courts are to fulfill their proper role as one branch in our system of government, the public must have access both to the trial and to the pretrial proceedings”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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