Commonwealth v. Strand’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Gravely (1979), Commonwealth v. Simmons (1995)
64 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 Dunn v. United States · Commonwealth v. Robson · Steckler v. United States · Commonwealth v. Blevins · Commonwealth v. Carter
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Ejven if it were assumed that the two verdicts were logically inconsistent, such inconsistency alone could not be grounds for a new trial or for reversal. ‘It has long been the rule in Pennsylvania and in the federal courts that consistency in a verdict in a criminal case is not necessary.’ Commonwealth v. Parrotto, 189 Pa.Super. 415, 419 , 150 A.2d 396 (1957).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court looks upon [the] acquittal as no more than the jury's assumption of a power which they had no right to exercise, but to which they were disposed through lenity.”
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.