362 Pa. Super. 350 - Commonwealth v. Chimenti’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably 394 Pa. Super. 146 - Commonwealth v. Austin (1990), 428 Pa. Super. 413 - Commonwealth v. Sattazahn (1993)
25 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. Clair · Pope v. Nebraska · Commonwealth v. Young · Commonwealth v. Gravely · Commonwealth v. Goosby
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court has recently defined the standard for ordering a new trial in a case where a prosecutorial statement is deemed improper. Commonwealth v. Upsher, 497 Pa. 621 , 444 A.2d 90 (1982). There we concluded that, although a prosecutor’s statement may be inappropriate, a new trial will not be granted unless it is inevitable that the prosecutor’s remark prejudiced the defendant to such a degree that it prevents the jury from weighing the evidence and rendering a true verdict. Id., 497 Pa. at 627 , 444 A.2d at 92 . See also Commonwealth v. Scarpino, 494 Pa. 421 , 431 A.2d 926 (1981) (New trial warranted when unavoidable effect of prosecutorial comment is to deprive defendant of fair trial); Commonwealth v. Martin, 461 Pa. 289 , 336 A.2d 290 (1975); Commonwealth v. Goosby, 450 Pa. 609 , 301 A.2d 673 (1973). Furthermore, “[T]he prejudicial effect of the district attorney’s remarks must be evaluated in the context in which they occurred.” Commonwealth v. Smith, 490 Pa. 380 , 416 A.2d 986 (1980); Commonwealth v. Perkins, 473 Pa. 116 , 373 A.2d 1076 (1977). However, a reversal is not an automatic formality for every intemperate or improper comment by the prosecution.”
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.