342 Pa. Super. 202 - Commonwealth v. Sparks’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently May 2022
2 federal appellate · 18 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Commonwealth v. Peterson · Commonwealth v. Morris · Commonwealth v. Ilgenfritz · Commonwealth v. Moore
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The witness is so hostile or prejudiced against the party expected to call him that there is a small possibility of obtaining the unbiased truth; 2. The testimony of such a witness is comparatively unimportant, cumulative, or inferior to that already presented; 3. The uncalled witness is equally available to both parties; 4. There is a satisfactory explanation as to why the party failed to call such a witness; 5. The witness is not available or not within the control of the party against whom the negative inference is desired; and 6. The testimony of the uncalled witness is not within the scope of the natural interest of the party failing to produce him.”
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.