Commonwealth v. Mimms’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably 420 Pa. Super. 311 - Commonwealth v. Cottam (1992), 276 Pa. Super. 89 - Commonwealth v. Rawls (1980)
35 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 Terry v. Ohio · Mapp v. Ohio · Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority · Pennsylvania v. Mimms · Wyman v. James
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Religious belief may not be shown. — No witness shall be questioned, in any judicial proceeding, concerning his religious belief; nor shall any evidence be heard upon the subject, for the purpose of affecting either his competency or credibility.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whether evidence admitted in violation of the statute actually deprives a defendant of his rights to a fair trial must be viewed in light of the attendant circumstances.” Commonwealth v. Mimms, supra, 477 Pa. at 559 n. 8, 385 A.2d at 336 n. 8; see also Commonwealth v. Rainey, 271 Pa.Super. 240, 246 , 412 A.2d 1106, 1108-09 (1979). The main purpose of the rule is to prohibit inflammatory questions that could”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Q. Tell me, are you a good friend of Harry Mimms [the defendant]? A. I am an acquaintance of him, I know him. Q. You know him very well would you say? A. Yes, sir. Q. Are you both Muslims? A. Sir? MR. ABRAMSEN: Objection, sir, I move for withdrawal of a juror. THE COURT. Overruled. BY MR. KLEIN Q. Are you both Muslims? A. Yes, sir.”
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.