376 Pa. Super. 25 - Commonwealth v. McMillan’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently December 2010 · most notably 380 Pa. Super. 555 - Commonwealth v. Willis (1988), 417 Pa. Super. 93 - Hutchison by Hutchison v. Luddy (1992)
34 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 McMillan v. Pennsylvania · Commonwealth v. Wright · Commonwealth v. Tabb · Commonwealth v. Brady · Commonwealth v. Meadows
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is well-settled that the trial court loses all power to alter its orders, final or interlocutory, thirty days from entry of judgment of sentence unless an order granting reconsideration is granted within that thirty day period.”
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.