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← 401 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Jackson

401 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis

1991

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Strickland v. Washington · Commonwealth v. Pierce · Commonwealth v. Devers · Commonwealth v. Pettus · Commonwealth v. Hardcastle

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Under Pennsylvania law, and in common usage as well, treatises are systematic expositions in writing including methodical discussion of facts and principles. Learned treatises are highly reliable because they are written for professionals, they are subject to scrutiny and testing by experts in the field, and the writers are unlikely to be partial with regard to any specific litigation. See, e.g., Packel & Pou-lin, Pa. Evidence § 803.18 (1987); Webster’s New College Dictionary (1980 Ed.).”
    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.