323 Pa. Super. 164 - Commonwealth v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently March 2011 · most notably 336 Pa. Super. 120 - Commonwealth v. Whiteman (1984), 436 Pa. Super. 277 - Commonwealth v. Smith (1994)
36 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Malloy v. Hogan · Kastigar v. United States · Murphy v. Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor · Illinois v. Vitale
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 110. When prosecution barred by former prosecution for different offense Although a prosecution is for a violation of a different provision of the statutes than a former prosecution or is based on different facts, it is barred by such former prosecution under the following circumstances: (1) The former prosecution resulted in an acquittal or in a conviction as defined in section 109 of this title (relating to when prosecution barred by former prosecution for the same offense) and the subsequent prosecution is for: (ii) any offense based on the same conduct or arising from the same criminal episode, if such offense was known to the appropriate prosecuting officer at the time of the commencement of the first trial and was within the jurisdiction of a single court unless the court ordered a separate trial of the charge of such offense____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Section 110 of the Crimes Code requires the Commonwealth to consolidate in a single proceeding all known charges based on the same conduct or arising from the same criminal episode unless the court orders separate trials____ “The compulsory joinder rules set forth in ... section 110 were designed to serve two distinct policy considerations: (1) to protect a person accused of crimes from governmental harassment of being forced to undergo successive trials for offenses stemming from the same criminal episode; and (2) as a matter of judicial administration and economy, to assure finality without unduly burdening the judicial process by repetitious litigation.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Witness immunity is characterized as either transactional immunity or use immunity. Transactional immunity provides a witness full immunity from prosecution for crimes arising from any transaction concerning which the witness was compelled to testify.... Use immunity, on the other hand, prohibits the use or derivative use of any testimony compelled over a claim of privilege_ Use immunity does not prohibit prosecution for all crimes arising out of the transaction testified to so long as the prosecution’s evidence is obtained from a source wholly independent of the compelled testimony.”
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.