399 Pa. Super. 477 - Commonwealth v. Gowan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 2021
2 federal appellate · 13 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 Schenck v. United States · Karis v. Karis · Commonwealth v. Mastrangelo · Commonwealth v. Greene · Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court for the County of Norfolk
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When engaged in a constitutionally protected activity of the fundamental nature of freedom of speech, we must exercise restraint in prohibiting the activity lest we destroy the right.”
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.