Commonwealth v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2010
14 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. Bonomo · In Re Longworth · 132 Pa. Super. 529 - Commonwealth v. Richman · 186 Pa. Super. 429 - Commonwealth v. Horn
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here are no fundamental differences in a defendant’s rights or legal principles involved between a jury and a non-jury case .... the same rules of evidence apply to a trial without a jury as to one with a jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the trial judge is required to give consideration to, and is bound by, the same legal principles as a jury.”
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.