Commonwealth v. Gartner’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently November 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Colson (1985), Commonwealth v. Hudson (1980)
74 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Allen v. United States · Jencks v. United States · Commonwealth v. Clair
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A defendant is entitled to a court inspection of the Commonwealth’s investigatory files only when there exists at least some reason to believe the inspection would lead to the discovery of evidence helpful to the defense. See Commonwealth v. Royster, 472 Pa. 581 , 372 A.2d 1194 (1977) (plurality opinion). Here, appellants made no showing that the court’s inspection would reveal evidence helpful to the defense. The court’s denial of appellants’ request was proper. See United States v. Agurs, 427 U.S. 97, 106 , 96 S.Ct. 2392, 2399 , 49 L.Ed.2d 342 (1976).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The court could properly draw the juror’s attention to their duty to “consult with one another and to deliberate with a view to reaching an agreement, if it can be done without violence to individual judgment.” ... In this context, it was not reversible error to refer briefly to the inconvenience of a retrial which would be necessitated by failure to obtain a verdict. ... The court offered the jurors the opportunity to suspend their deliberations in order to rest for the night, but they apparently preferred to attempt a speedy resolution of the case. We conclude that this situation falls within the rule that “ '[t]he length of the deliberation of a jury is wisely left to the sound discretion of the trial Judge, and we reverse only if we find ... abuse of discretion, or that the verdict was the product of coercion or an overworked and fatigued jury.’ ” [citing cases]. We cannot make such a finding here.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The notes were supplied to appellants’ counsel before the end of trial. Appellants if they desired, were able to present to the jury any discrepancies between the notes and the earlier witness trial testimony during their cross-examination of Trooper Bey. Moreover, the record reveals that appellants were free to recall Mark, McClure and Wynn for further cross-examination based on the information disclosed on the notes, but chose not to do so. Appellants’ claim that they were prejudiced by the Commonwealth’s failure to produce the notes when first requested, in these circumstances, is specious.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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