351 Pa. Super. 149 - Commonwealth v. Speaks’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably 413 Pa. Super. 95 - Commonwealth v. Kennedy (1992), 371 Pa. Super. 315 - Commonwealth v. Delligatti (1988)
29 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 Roviaro v. United States · Nix v. Williams · North Carolina v. Butler · Lutwak v. United States · Commonwealth v. MacOlino
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The problem is one that calls for balancing the public interest in protecting the flow of information against the individual's right to prepare his defense. Whether a proper balance renders nondisclosure erroneous must depend on the particular circumstances of each case, taking into consideration the crime charged, the possible defenses, the possible significance of the informer's testimony and other relevant factors.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“permits the Commonwealth `to refrain from disclosing the identity of an informer' and `limits the prosecution's duty to make available to the defense the names and whereabouts of all material eyewitnesses.'”
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.