454 Pa. Super. 313 - Commonwealth v. Pearson’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently September 2020 · most notably 2010 Pa. Super. 46 - Commonwealth v. Moury (2010), 2003 Pa. Super. 341 - Commonwealth v. Duffy (2003)
52 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. Dugger · Kremer v. Grant · Commonwealth v. Clark · Krupinski v. Vocational Technical School Eastern Northampton County · Kemmerer v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1) the nature of the reference to the defendant’s silence; 2) how it was elicited; 3) whether the district attorney exploited it; and 4) the promptness and adequacy of the cautionary instruction. If the reference to the accused’s silence is of a nature that would seriously compromise the jury’s objectivity and is likely to deprive the accused of a fair trial, curative instructions are inadequate and a new trial is required.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[The] trial court cannot conduct a hearing on the matter unless and until this Court remands with instructions to hold such a hearing.... Only when the underlying issue raised is arguably meritorious, and the appellant had established that he has suffered by the alleged ineffectiveness, will such a hearing become necessary.”
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.