Commonwealth v. Fowler’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Blackwell v. Com. State Ethics Com'n (1991), Commonwealth v. Geschwendt (1982)
24 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 3146 (Bail Reform Act of 1984)
Relies on Barker v. Wingo · Furman v. Georgia · General Telephone Co. v. Federal Communications Commission · Commonwealth v. Hamilton · J. I. Case Co. v. Borak
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. if post-trial proceedings in a case of first degree murder are not disposed of and the defendant is not sentenced within the stated four-month period, he may then apply for bail. If the trial judge is convinced at that juncture that the defendant neither caused nor consented to the delay, and is provided reasonable assurance against flight, bail may be granted.” (emphasis added) Id., 451 Pa. at 517 , 304 A.2d at 130 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) “After a verdict of guilty and before sentence is imposed, a defendant shall have the same right to bail as he had before trial. (b) After sentence, bail may be allowed in such amount as shall be fixed by the trial judge conditioned upon the defendant perfecting an appeal within twenty days. If an appeal is perfected, such bail shall be effective until final determination of the appeal.””
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.