Commonwealth v. Webster’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Laudenberger v. Port Auth. of Allegheny (1981), Singer v. Sheppard (1975)
49 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 Griffin v. People of the State of Illinois · United States v. Calandra · Williamson v. Lee Optical of Oklahoma, Inc. · Shapiro v. Thompson · Douglas v. People of State of California
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Appellant] is foreclosed from contending that [A]rticle I, [S]ection 10 violates any rights guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution. Because permission to substitute informations for indictments is granted by the amended Constitution, any other provision of the Constitution that heretofore would have prohibited initiation of criminal proceedings in the manner permitted by [A]rticle I, [Section 10 is pro tanto modified to permit it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Each of the several courts of common pleas may, with the approval of the Supreme Court, provide for the initiation of criminal proceedings therein by information filed in the manner provided by law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . . [T]he substantial rights of an accused are equally protected regardless of the method used to initiate the proceeding.”
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.