Commonwealth v. Negri’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 183 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 204 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently December 2014 · most notably Johnson v. State of New Jersey (1966), State v. Coleman (1965)
11 federal appellate · 2 district · 183 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Mapp v. Ohio · Escobedo v. Illinois · Jackson v. Denno · Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois
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 204 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for all practical purposes, the ultimate forum in Pennsylvania,”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘ [W]e believe that the Constitution neither prohibits nor requires retrospective effect. . . . ’ The approach then is to ‘weigh the merits and demerits in each case by looking to the prior history of the rule in question, its purpose and effect, and whether retrospective operation will further or retard its operation.’ (Citation omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[w]hen the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has held certain practices or procedures to violate federal constitutional rights, its decision will be accepted and followed by the courts of this Commonwealth until the United States Supreme Court has spoken on the issue.”
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.