330 Pa. Super. 70 - Commonwealth v. Heiser’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently November 2013
20 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 Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer · Commonwealth v. Truesdale · Commonwealth v. Robinson · Commonwealth v. Ewing · Commonwealth v. Thornton
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In other words, a capital offense is a crime for which the death penalty may, but need not, be inflicted, [citation omitted]. We are likewise convinced that the words in Section 14 “when the proof is evident or presumption great” mean that if the Commonwealth’s evidence which is presented at the bail hearing, together with all reasonable inferences therefrom, is sufficient in law to sustain a verdict of murder in the first degree, bail should be refused. It follows that in the absence of such evidence, the prisoner is entitled to bail.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Since evidence offered at the preliminary hearing in the family court division established a prima facie case of murder in the first degree, the court below did not err in refusing to release Farris on bail pending trial, and its order to this effect will be affirmed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offense when the proof is evident or presumption great. Excessive bail shall not be required.”
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.