Kastner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1995
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mayle v. Pennsylvania Department of Highways · Smith v. Fenner · Roy v. Jones · Brungard v. HARTMAN · 406 F. Supp. 287 - Padgett v. Stein
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the term “ex post facto” as used in the Constitutions of the United States and Pennsylvania applies only to penal statutes and “may be defined as [a law] which imposes a punishment for an act which was not punishable when it was committed, imposes additional punishment or changes the rules of evidence by which less or different testimony is sufficient to convict....””
2 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.