Commonwealth v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
1 district · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2009
1 district · 6 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 Levering v. Commonwealth · Gales v. Weldon · Commonwealth v. Sullivan · 157 Pa. Super. 95 - Commonwealth v. Summons · Nelson v. State
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(1) arrive on the scene if necessary to render aid and assistance in the perpetration of the crime, or (2) watch out for trouble and. give the perpetrator of the crime information of the approaching danger, or (3) take part in aiding the escape of the perpetrator after the commission of the crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunt v. Commonwealth
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.