363 Pa. Super. 615 - Commonwealth v. Brachbill’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently December 2003
18 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. Miller · 308 Pa. Super. 139 - Commonwealth v. Hammond · 299 Pa. Super. 335 - Commonwealth v. Dumas · Commonwealth v. Ford-Bey · 336 Pa. Super. 90 - Commonwealth v. Leonhard
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Offense defined — A person commits an offense if, with the intent to or with the knowledge that his conduct will obstruct, impede, impair, prevent or interfere with the administration of criminal justice, he intimidates or attempts to intimidate any witness or victim to: (1) Refrain from informing or reporting to any law enforcement officer, prosecuting official or judge concerning any information, document or thing relating to the commission of a crime____ (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Aural acquisition of the contents of any wire or oral communication through the use of any [electronic, mechanical, or other device] intercepting device. *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 5704 Exceptions to prohibition on interception and disclosure of communications”
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.