Commonwealth v. Pinno’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hubbard (1977), Commonwealth v. Kelly (1979)
34 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 Carroll v. United States · Sibron v. State of New York Peters · Henry v. United States · Preston v. United States · Cooper v. State of California
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We believe that a proper reading of Rule 2001 compels the conclusion that the question of waiver under 2001(b) is a matter solely for the court. 2001(b) provides four alternative excuses for a failure to meet the “five days before trial” requirement. The drafters’ notes explicitly state that the last of these, if “the interests of justice require it,” gives the court discretionary power to enter tain the application after the expiration of the time period.... When the trial judge decided the merits of appellant’s suppression claim, he in effect exercised his discretionary power to excuse appellant’s noncompliance with the five day rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.