391 Pa. Super. 100 - Commonwealth v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2018
16 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. Cabeza · Commonwealth v. Thomas · Commonwealth v. Daniels · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Dunbar
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant contends, first, that trial counsel was ineffective for failing to object to the testimony of Dr. Joshua Perper, the Allegheny County coroner, concerning the cause of death of the victim, Thomas Law. Dr. Catherine Janosz, a former employee of the coroner’s office, performed the autopsy on the victim, and Dr. Perper’s testimony concerning the cause of death was based on his review of the report of Dr. Janosz, who did not testify. Appellant maintains that Dr. Janosz’s report was hearsay and that the admission of Dr. Perper’s testimony as to the contents of that report caused appellant to be denied his right of cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[W]here an appellate decision overrules prior law and announces a new principle, unless the decision specifically declares the ruling to be prospective only, the new rule is to be applied retroactively to cases where the issue in question is properly preserved at all stages of adjudication up to and including any direct appeal”
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.