432 Pa. Super. 483 - Commonwealth v. Barnyak’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2017
14 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 310 Pa. Super. 39 - Commonwealth v. Griffin · Commonwealth v. Foy · 417 Pa. Super. 233 - Commonwealth v. Spells · 270 Pa. Super. 501 - Commonwealth v. Hess · 407 Pa. Super. 343 - Commonwealth v. Boyles
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) The defendant or his attorney may make a motion to the court to suppress any evidence alleged to have been obtained in violation of the defendant’s rights. (b) Unless the opportunity did not previously exist, or the interests of justice otherwise require, such motion shall be made only after a case has been returned to court and shall be contained in the omnibus pretrial motion set forth in Rule 306. If timely motion is not made hereunder, the issue of suppression of such evidence shall be deemed to be waived.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“even if the ex parte communications were improper, in the absence of evidence of influence, there is no basis for the grant of a new trial.” Id. at 492 , 639 A.2d at 44 . See also Commonwealth v. Bradley, 501 Pa. 25, 27 , 459 A.2d 733, 734 (1983), wherein this Court held”
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.