Commonwealth v. Clair’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 856 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 875 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hubbard (1977), Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer (1982)
8 federal appellate · 856 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 Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Scoleri · Commonwealth v. Marlin
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 875 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial judge must be given an opportunity to rectify errors at the time they are made. As we have often said before: `[A] party may not remain silent and take chances on a verdict and afterwards complain of matters which, if erroneous, the Court would have corrected.' Commonwealth v. Marlin, 452 Pa. 380, 382 , 305 A.2d 14, 16 (1973). See also, Commonwealth v. Morgan, 448 Pa. 494 , 295 A.2d 77 (1972).”
20 later decisions 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.