427 Pa. Super. 566 - Commonwealth v. Maris’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably 2003 Pa. Super. 360 - Commonwealth v. Lyons (2003), 450 Pa. Super. 105 - Commonwealth v. Genovese (1996)
27 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 City of Hazleton v. City Council · Stout v. Commonwealth ex rel. Preate · 299 Pa. Super. 64 - Commonwealth v. Sanford · 389 Pa. Super. 430 - O'NEILL v. Checker Motors Corp. · 413 Pa. Super. 498 - Commonwealth v. Rodgers
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While this court is willing to liberally construe materials filed by a pro se litigant, we note that appellant is not entitled to any particular advantage because she lacks legal training. As our supreme court has explained, “any layperson choosing to represent [herself] in a legal proceeding must, to some reasonable extent, assume the risk that [her] lack of expertise and legal training will prove [her] undoing.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The argument [section] shall be divided into as many parts as there are questions to be argued; and shall have as the head of each part — in distinctive type or in type distinctively displayed — the particular point treated therein, followed by such discussion and citation of authorities as are deemed pertinent.”
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.