Commonwealth v. Bey’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 1990 · most notably W. Homestead Bsd v. Alleg. Co. B. of SD (1970), 244 Pa. Super. 467 - MacKanick v. Rubin (1976)
30 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 Nixon v. Nixon · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Cunningham v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Yorktowne Paper Mills, Inc. · Commonwealth ex rel. Robinson v. Myers · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Newsome v. Myers
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The timeliness of an appeal and compliance with statutory provisions which grant the right of appeal go to the jurisdiction of our court and its competency to act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“such jurisdiction as shall be provided by law.”
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.