Commonwealth v. DiGiacomo’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
90 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. Christy (1995), 441 Pa. Super. 1 - Sprague v. Walter (1995)
90 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 Washington v. Texas · In re Oliver · Webb v. Texas · 147 Ohio St. 416 - Weis v. Weis · Allen v. St. Louis Public Service Company
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The mere advising of one individual of his rights where there is a justifiable occasion for doing so, does not in turn infringe upon the constitutional rights of another even though the election to exercise those rights may deprive the other of a possible advantage in his defense.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“hospital records are admissible to show the fact of hospitalization, treatment prescribed, and symptoms given.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"is justified on grounds analogous to those underlying other exceptions to the hearsay rule. Unusual reliability is regarded as furnished by the fact that in practice regular entries have a comparatively high degree of accuracy (as compared to other memoranda) because such books and records are customarily checked as to correctness by systematic balance-striking, because the very regularity and continuity of the records is calculated to train the record-keeper in habits of precision, and because in actual experience the entire business of the nation and many other activities constantly function in reliance upon entries of this kind."”
2 later decisions 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.