Commonwealth v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently January 1997 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hall (1973), 354 Pa. Super. 533 - Commonwealth v. Butler (1986)
38 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 Terry v. Ohio · United States v. Wade · Aguilar v. Texas · Stovall v. Denno · Spinelli v. United States
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is undoubtedly true that evidence of a party’s attempt to embrace a juror is admissible to show his unwillingness to rely on the soundness of his cause. Subornation of a witness and proof of flight as an admission of guilt are analogues.” Citing inter alia Commonwealth v. Brown, 23 Pa.Super. 470, 502 (1903).”
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.