326 Pa. Super. 73 - Commonwealth v. Duden’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably 367 Pa. Super. 511 - Commonwealth v. Krum (1987), 341 Pa. Super. 350 - In Re Search Warrant B-21778 Gartley (1985)
43 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 Jackson v. Denno · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Huntington v. Attrill · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Bighum
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There is no duty on a trial judge to charge a jury upon law which has no applicability to the presented facts. There must be some relationship between the law upon which an instruction is required and the evidence presented at the trial: Commonwealth v. Coleman, 402 Pa. 238 , 166 A.2d 525 (1961).” Id. (quoting Commonwealth v. Whiting, 409 Pa. 492, 498 , 187 A.2d 563, 566 (1963)).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Jurisdiction is a legal issue and therefore is not normally a concern for the jury. However, in those infrequent cases where jurisdiction depends upon the resolution of disputed facts, it is within the province of the jury to resolve the issue under proper instructions, and failure to give such instructions may constitute reversible error.”
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.