Commonwealth v. Garrison’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus (1975), 255 Pa. Super. 305 - Commonwealth v. Weitkamp (1978)
37 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. Redline · Commonwealth v. Spardute · Commonwealth v. Quaranta · Commonwealth v. Parker · Commonwealth v. Doris
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Mrs. Garrison did not testify, and we do not regard the evidence ascribed to her as being the equivalent of testimony. It was not against her husband and did not refer to him: hence it falls within the rule of Welker v. New York Central Railroad, 275 Pa. 82 (1922), 118 A. 615 , and Commonwealth v. Johnson, 213 Pa. 432 (1906), 62 A. 1064 , that: “Facts which have been learned by competent witnesses are not to be excluded because the witness may have been put on the track of them by information coming incidentally or otherwise from the prisoner or his wife.” 14”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We see no reason to nullify a prosecutor's manoeuvre in anticipating what he may be sure defense counsel will bring out. This is not impeaching counsel's own witness but rather the legitimate thrust and riposte of trial tactics.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Estlick
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.