353 Pa. Super. 178 - Commonwealth v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2003 · most notably 431 Pa. Super. 453 - Commonwealth v. Swerdlow (1994), 381 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Anderson (1988)
30 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 v. Jackson · Commonwealth v. Eiland · 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor · Commonwealth v. Strantz · Commonwealth v. Roux
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) A person is guilty of kidnapping if he unlawfully removes another a substantial distance under the circumstances from the place he is found, or if he unlawfully confines another for a substantial period in a place of isolation ... (b) ... A removal or confinement is unlawful within the meaning of this section if it is accomplished by force, threat, or deception____”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a sensible interpretation is one that views a substantial distance as one that isolates the victim and exposes him or her to increased risk of harm.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Tg
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.