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← 476 Pa. 369 - Commonwealth v. Earp

Commonwealth v. Earp’s Empirical Analysis

1978

Citation profile

38
cited by 38 later decisions
2
states following
August 1995
most recently cited

38 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably Commonwealth v. Genovese (1981), Commonwealth v. Brady (1986)

38 state decisions

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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 United States v. Marion · United States v. Lovasco · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Campana

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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “There, the defendant was arrested and charged with murder, conspiracy and several lesser included offenses arising from the same criminal episode. At a preliminary hearing, the murder and conspiracy charges were discharged, but the defendant was continuously held on all other charges. This continuous confinement was the crucial factor in discharging the defendant, even though the murder and conspiracy charges were later refiled and the trial was commenced within 180 days of that date.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Genovese
  2. “"When more than one offense is alleged to have been committed by one person arising from the same incident, the issuing authority shall accept only one complaint, and shall docket the matter as a single case."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Tome

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.