Commonwealth v. Duncan’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Booth (2001), 362 Pa. Super. 176 - Commonwealth v. Westcott (1987)
44 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. Glover · Commonwealth v. Exler · Commonwealth v. Dial · Commonwealth v. Mason · Commonwealth v. DeWan
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Loitering and prowling at night time Whoever at night time maliciously loiters or maliciously prowls around a dwelling house or any other place used wholly or in part for living or dwelling purposes, belonging to or occupied by another, is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Waters v. McGuriman“`to the constitutional issue of vagueness and the issue of . . . the use and meaning of the word”
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.