358 Pa. Super. 39 - Commonwealth v. Satzberg’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 380 Pa. Super. 334 - Commonwealth v. Hewett (1988), Commonwealth v. Simpson (2000)
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 Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · Commonwealth v. Martin · Commonwealth v. Richardson · Municial Publications, Inc. v. Court of Common Pleas
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.
“Taken together, [ Reilly and Municipal Publications, Inc. v. Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County , [ 507 Pa. 194 ,] 489 A.2d 1286 ( [Pa.] 1985),] delineate the proper role of a judge in considering a recusal motion alleging judicial prejudice. Absent an abuse of discretion, the judge may properly decide recusal motions concerning his impartiality if he believes he can adjudicate the case fairly and objectively. A trial judge is bound to excuse himself only when he has personal knowledge of the disputed facts and has decided to testify at the recusal hearing. Reilly , [ ] 489 A.2d at 1299 ; Municipal Publications , [ ] 489 A.2d at 1286 . See also Reilly , [ ] 489 A.2d at 1307 (Hutchinson, J., concurring).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the prejudice to the [defendant] was simply too great to be negated by a curative instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“did nothing for two and a half years except to do drugs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.