Commonwealth v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently July 2008 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hubbard (1977), Commonwealth v. Banks (1973)
50 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 Barker v. Wingo · North Carolina v. Pearce · Commonwealth v. Hamilton · Commonwealth v. Burns · Commonwealth v. Pearson
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . As ruled in North Carolina v. Pearce, 395 U.S. 711 , 89 S.Ct. 2072 , 23 L.Ed.2d 656 [supra], where a defendant is convicted a second time following a successful appeal, the sentence imposed the second time may not exceed the original sentence unless for good cause shown. ‘Good cause’ is limited to events occurring subsequent to the first trial. Such good cause is absent here. “The Commonwealth’s position is that since the aggregate sentence imposed following the second trial was less than the aggregate sentence imposed after the first trial, Pearce was not violated. We reject this position. The sentence imposed on each indictment is controlling. Cf. Commonwealth v. Allen, 443 Pa. 96 , 277 A.2d 803 (1971).” (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In determining if the constitutional right to a speedy trial has been violated, each case requires an analysis of the circumstances and a consideration of the rights of society, as well as those of the accused to be protected from undue and oppressive pre-trial incarceration.” (citations omitted).”
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.