Commonwealth v. Schab’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Carter v. City of Philadelphia (1999), Balshy v. Rank (1985)
4 federal appellate · 28 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 Erie Co v. Tompkins · Monroe v. Pape · United States v. Nixon · Screws v. United States · Runyon v. McCrary
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t would be incongruous to place a district attorney in the position of being responsible to the electorate for the performance of his duties while actual control over his performance was, in effect, in the attorney general.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Commonwealth Attorneys Act is but one source of the Attorney General’s powers, and that, moreover, the language of Article 4, section 4.1, of our state constitu tion and that of the Act evidence an intent to retain the common law powers of the Attorney General.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“is clothed, with the powers and attributes which enveloped Attorneys General at common law, including the right ... to supersede and set aside the district attorney when in the Attorney General’s judgment such action may be necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.