Commonwealth v. Joyner’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
78 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Albrecht (1998), Commonwealth v. Cliff (1979)
78 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Commonwealth v. Futch · Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus · Di Carlo v. United States · Commonwealth v. Goosby
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is unprofessional conduct for the prosecutor to express his personal belief or opinion as to the truth or falsity of any testimony or evidence of the guilt of the defendant." ABA Standards Relating to the Prosecution Function, § 5.8(b) (Approved Draft, 1971).”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A new trial is required when the remark is prejudicial, that is, when it is of such a nature or substance or delivered in such a manner that it may reasonably be said to have deprived the defendant of a fair and impartial trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[Ejven where the language of the district attorney is intemperate, uncalled for and improper, a new trial is not necessarily required. Commonwealth v. Crittenton, 326 Pa. 25, 31 , 191 A. 358 (1937); Commonwealth v. McHugh, 187 Pa. Super. 568, 577 , 145 A.2d 896 (1958). The language must be such that its “unavoidable effect would be to prejudice the jury, forming in their minds fixed bias and hostility toward the defendant, so that they could not weigh the evidence and render a true verdict.” Commonwealth v. Simon, 432 Pa. 386, 394 , 248 A.2d 289, 292 (1968). Commonwealth v. Stoltzfus, 462 Pa. 43, 61 , 337 A.2d 873, 882 (1975).”
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.