334 Pa. Super. 203 - Commonwealth v. Britton’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably 382 Pa. Super. 127 - Commonwealth v. Greer (1989), 434 Pa. Super. 309 - Commonwealth v. Anderson (1994)
30 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. Allen · Commonwealth v. Young · Commonwealth v. Goosby · Commonwealth v. McCusker · Commonwealth v. England
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court correctly curtailed the attorney’s remarks explaining to the jury that it was his role to instruct as to the law. It is the duty of the trial judge to instruct the jury as to the applicable law, and it is not error for the judge to interrupt counsel and correct a possibly misleading statement of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Judges should refrain from extended examination of witnesses; they should not, during the trial, indicate an opinion on the merits, a doubt as to the witnesses’s [sic] credibility, or do anything to indicate a leaning to one side or the other, without explaining to the jury that all these matters are for them.”
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.