347 Pa. Super. 128 - Commonwealth v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. May (1995), Commonwealth v. Hancharik (1993)
38 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 Trammel v. United States · John Stein v. William Bowman · Commonwealth v. Wilkes · Whitehead v. Kirk · 169 Pa. Super. 498 - Hunter v. Hunter
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(E)xcept as otherwise provided in this subchapter”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e must decide whether the nature of the communications changes once the speaker spouse reveals their substance to third parties. Clearly, the substance of the latter communications cannot be considered confidential just because it was once that. Third parties were free to testify against appel lant. But, keeping the purpose of the privilege uppermost, we are not convinced that the confidentiality that inhered in the initial conversation can be wiped away when the speaker for whatever reason, talks to the third parties about the same matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The privilege that protects information privately disclosed between husband and wife in the confidence of the marital relationship was once described by the United States Supreme Court as ‘the best solace of human existence.’ Stein v. Bowman [ 38 U.S. 209 ], 13 Pet. 209, at 223 , 10 L.Ed. 129 (1839) in Trammel v. U.S., supra, 446 [445] U.S. [40] at 51, 100 S.Ct. [906] at 913 [ 63 L.Ed.2d 186 (1980) ].”
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.