326 Pa. Super. 388 - Commonwealth v. Gemelli’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stipetich (1995), 352 Pa. Super. 466 - Commonwealth v. Bradfield (1986)
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 282 Pa. Super. 431 - Commonwealth v. Niemetz · 247 Pa. Super. 99 - Commonwealth v. Kindness · 281 Pa. Super. 505 - Commonwealth v. Boerner · Commonwealth v. Waters · 269 Pa. Super. 518 - Commonwealth v. Kazior
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.
“A motion to quash may be used to raise defects apparent on the face of the information or other defects that would prohibit prosecution____ A motion to quash an information is neither a guilt determining procedure nor a pre-trial means for determining the sufficiency of the Commonwealth’s evidence____ The inadequacy, incompetency, or even illegality of the Commonwealth’s evidence does not constitute grounds for quashing an information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The decision to grant or deny a motion to quash is within the sound discretion of the trial judge and will be reversed on appeal only where there has been a clear abuse of discretion. . . . A court, moreover, "should not sustain a motion to quash . . . except in a clear case where it is convinced that harm has been done to the defendant by improper conduct that interfered with his substantial rights."”
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.