Commonwealth v. Stots’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
November 2011
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Hawkins v. United States · Rivera v. United States · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Scoleri · Manfredi Estate
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[C]onnivance by the parties cannot evade it, nor can indulgence by the court.” Commonwealth v. Stots, 436 Pa. 555 , 261 A.2d 577 (1970); Canole v. Allen, 222 Pa. 156, 159 , 70 A. 1053 . Accord, Huffman v. Simmons, 131 Pa.Super. 370, 376 , 200 A. 274, 276 (1938).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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