Commonwealth v. Dussinger’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently August 1995 · most notably 282 Pa. Super. 431 - Commonwealth v. Niemetz (1980), 336 Pa. Super. 609 - Commonwealth v. Jackson (1984)
59 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 Commonwealth v. Futch · Commonwealth v. Kichline · Commonwealth v. Paquette · Commonwealth v. Goosby · Commonwealth v. Rose
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Therefore as in Ilgenfritz, supra, we will treat [defendant’s] challenge as one to the sufficiency of the evidence rather than one challenging the correctness of the trial court’s rulings on the demurrers.”
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.