442 Pa. Super. 116 - Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2018
8 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 Commonwealth v. Story · Commonwealth v. Twiggs · Commonwealth v. Randall · Commonwealth v. Butler · Commonwealth v. Boyle
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.
“[D]etermining what crimes involve crimen falsi based solely upon the statutory title of the offense or the Clerk of Courts’ verification that a defendant was convicted of a crime does not place that event in proper perspective in terms of meaningfulness and as an aid to the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“evidence of prior convictions can be introduced for the purpose of impeaching the credibility of a witness if the conviction was for an offense involving dishonesty or false statements”
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.