Commonwealth v. Schurtz’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably Commonwealth v. Scott (1976), Commonwealth v. Simmons (1948)
46 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. Drum · Commonwealth v. Kluska · Commonwealth v. Buccieri · Commonwealth v. Becker · Commonwealth v. Stelma
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.
““Isolated excerpts torn from the heart of the charge cannot be considered apart from the context, and if the whole is accurate and fair, as it was in this case, the parts objected to do not form a proper basis for reversal.” This same principle was enunciated by this court in Com. v. Glenn, 321 Pa. 241 , 183 A. 763; Com. v. Becker, 326 Pa. 105 , 191 A. 351 ; Com. v. Stelma, 327 Pa. 317 , 192 A. 906 .”
2 later decisions 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.