386 Pa. Super. 133 - Commonwealth v. Penn’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently February 2024
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 Richmond Newspapers, Inc. v. Virginia · Waller v. Georgia · Press-Enterprise Company v. Superior Court of California Riverside County · Gannett Co Inc v. A · Gregory v. United States
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The influence of lawless force directed toward parties or witnesses to proceedings during their pendency is so sinister and undermining of the process of adjudication itself that no court should regard it with indifference or shelter it from exposure and inquiry.” NLRB v. Indiana & Michigan Electric Co., 318 U.S. 9, 29 , 63 S.Ct. 394 , 87 L.Ed. 579 (1943). 8 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Ilf the means of justice are to be preserved and the ends of justice protected, courts must exercise their discretion so as to dispel any belief that intimidation of victims or witnesses will serve the ends to which the intimidation is directed.” Commonwealth v. Penn, 386 Pa.Super. 133 , 562 A.2d 833, 837 (1989).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] bald assertion of alleged intimidation does not justify the kind of encroachment on a defendant's Sixth Amendment right to a public trial which clearing the courtroom for a witness' testimony entails.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mitchell v. State
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