Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
107 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 107 later decisions — most recently July 2007 · most notably Commonwealth v. Brown (1994), Commonwealth v. Stair (1997)
107 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 Aguilar v. Texas · Chimel v. California · Spinelli v. United States · Warden, Maryland Penitentiary v. Hayden · Illinois v. Allen
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 107 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ajlthough a perfectly conducted trial is indeed the ideal objective of our judicial process, the defendant is not necessarily entitled to relief simply because of some imperfections in the trial, so long as he has been accorded a fair trial. ‘A defendant is entitled to a fair trial but not a perfect one.' Commonwealth v. Hill, 450 Pa. 477, 480-81 , 301 A.2d 587, 590 (1973) (quoting Lutwak v. United States, 344 U.S. 604, 619 , 73 S.Ct. 481, 490 , 97 L.Ed. 593 (1953)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The fact that [the witness] was unable to identify appellant at the lineup is relevant to only the weight and credibility of his testimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We . . . do not determine the remedy to be applied if arresting officers act outside their jurisdiction.”
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.