Commonwealth v. Tinson’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 97 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Bronson v. Commonwealth Board of Probation & Parole (1980), Commonwealth v. Butler (1974)
17 federal appellate · 68 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 Mempa v. Rhay · McConnell v. Rhay · Commonwealth Ex Rel. O'Lock v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Stokes · Commonwealth v. Johnson
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 97 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The point is that counsel is required at the hearing before the Parole Board to insure that that hearing is constitutionally valid. . . . The recommitment hearing determined whether or not appellant would be returned to prison. There can be no question that a proceeding at which a determination of that kind was made was a “critical stage.” [Emphasis in the original.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Writs of habeas corpus may still be had in cases not covered by the PCHA ... so that were this case without the PCHA, habeas corpus relief would be possible in this proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that the part of his sentence that he has served since his recommitment hearing is a result of his not being represented by counsel at that hearing.”
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.