Commonwealth v. Dickerson’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 138 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 154 later decisions — most recently September 2000 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus (1975), Commonwealth v. Sullivan (1977)
9 federal appellate · 138 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. Kravitz · Commonwealth v. Novak · Commonwealth v. Lowry · Commonwealth v. Homeyer · Commonwealth v. Scoleri
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 154 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“emphatically the district attorney should always bear in mind his proper role in a trial of such great import, and religiously refrain from conduct unbecoming such a responsible trust. . . . We cannot urge upon district attorneys too strongly the need for refraining from such conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Werts v. Vaughn“certain conduct and statements of the district attorney during trial deprived him of a fair trial”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Werts v. Vaughn“[a] careful study of the record in its entirety disclosed no real merit to this contention”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Werts v. Vaughn
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.