346 Pa. Super. 438 - Commonwealth v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lark (1988), Commonwealth v. Wharton (1992)
50 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 Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Morris · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Pronkoskie
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘forms part of the history of the event or serves to enhance the natural development of the facts.’ Commonwealth v. Evans, 343 Pa.Super. 118 , 494 A.2d 383, 390 (1985); Commonwealth v. Murphy, 346 Pa.Super. 438 , 499 A.2d 1080, 1083 (1985). * * *” Crozier v. State, Wyo., 723 P.2d 42, 49 (1986).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smizer v. State
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.