Commonwealth v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently March 1997 · most notably Commonwealth v. McGrew (1953), Commonwealth v. Silver (1982)
6 federal appellate · 46 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Commonwealth v. Green · Hostetler v. Kniseley · Durden v. People · York v. State · Commonwealth v. Gedzium
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The substitution of judges during a case should be carefully guarded and never permitted except under most extraordinary circumstances, and only then when no prejudice can result to the parties. Substitution must be a matter of necessity, where the due administration of justice makes it imperative and without prejudice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Randel v. Beto““In no event should a substitution or replacement after verdict ever be permitted except under unavoidable circumstances, such as sickness, impossibility to act, or other substantial cause which would make the continuance of the trial judge’s presence impossible”: Commonwealth v. Thompson, 328 Pa. 27, 31 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the practice of substituting judges to hear motions for a new trial, suspending or imposing sentence should be confined solely to cases of necessity.”
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.