409 Pa. Super. 622 - Commonwealth v. Wheaton’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2023
12 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 368 Pa. Super. 327 - Commonwealth v. Pearsall · Commonwealth v. Duncan · 299 Pa. Super. 529 - Commonwealth v. Evans · 275 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Showalter · 248 Pa. Super. 504 - Commonwealth v. Bender
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) makes a telephone call without purpose of legitimate communication; or “(2) insults, taunts, or challenges another in a manner likely to provoke violent or disorderly response; or “(3) makes repeated communications anonymously or at extremely inconvenient hours, or in offensively coarse language; or “(4) subjects another to an offensive touching; or “(5) engages in any other course of alarming conduct serving no legitimate purpose of the actor.””
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.