Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
December 2006
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Zeber Appeal · Williams v. Civil Service Commission · Commonwealth v. Grant · 5 Pa. Commw. 139 - Kramer v. City of Bethlehem · Cotter v. Commonwealth
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“For appellant to be dismissed, it was not necessary for him to be convicted of the crimes with which he was charged.”
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.