Commonwealth v. Trunk’s Empirical Analysis
1935
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission v. Smith (1944), HOFFMAN v. PITTSBURGH (1950)
29 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 Tarlo's Estate · Commonwealth v. Wilcox · Commonwealth v. Mayloy & Keating · Nyce v. Board of Commissioners · Commonwealth v. Buccieri
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““the county has always been viewed as the proper unit of government to prosecute and enforce the general criminal law, and hence, as the adversary of the accused, is the losing party when the defendant in a criminal case receives a decision in his favor.””
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.