Commonwealth v. Galloway’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently January 2019 · most notably Lawrence Lines v. David Larkins Warden (2000), Doctor v. Walters (1996)
7 federal appellate · 36 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 Molinaro v. New Jersey · Smith v. United States · Selma and Meridian Railroad Company v. Louisiana National Bank of New Orleans · United States v. Swigart · 208 Pa. Super. 444 - Commonwealth v. Grillo
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the inherent discretion of any court to refuse to hear the claim of a litigant who, by escaping, has placed himself beyond the jurisdiction and control of the court, and hence, might not be responsive to the judgment of the court.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order to give the trial court the first opportunity to rectify any errors that may have occurred in the trial process, and to aid in clarifying and framing the issues on appeal, we remand the record to the trial court for disposition of the post-trial motions on the merits. See Commonwealth v. Grillo, 208 Pa.Super. 444 , 449 n. 1, 222 A.2d 427 , 430 n. 1 (1966). Upon remand the trial court is directed to consider the issues raised in the “motions” filed January 17, 1973.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kindler v. Horn“Additional and Supplemental Motions for a New Trial, Nunc Pro Tunc”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.