Commonwealth v. Muth’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 1997 · most notably 218 Pa. Super. 221 - Nyman Motor Vehicle Operator License Case (1971), 216 Pa. Super. 402 - Commonwealth v. Koons (1970)
30 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 158 Pa. Super. 179 - Philadelphia v. Cline · 166 Pa. Super. 223 - Commonwealth v. Gill · Commonwealth v. Germsback
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These venue provisions were inserted for the purpose of preventing oppression. They were designed to prevent officers from harassing motorists who violate the code by taking them to a magistrate at a distant point in the county, and also to prevent an improper alliance between the magistrate and the officer in the prosecution of violators.””
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.