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← 48 A3D 432 - Commonwealth v. Landis

Commonwealth v. Landis’s Empirical Analysis

2012

Citation profile

25
cited by 25 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

21 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Alexander · Commonwealth v. Matthew · 2007 Pa. Super. 187 - Commonwealth v. Hendricks · 2005 Pa. Super. 271 - Commonwealth v. Alford · 2012 Pa. Super. 80 - Commonwealth v. Fletcher

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

  1. “'evidence, read in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, that sufficiently establishes both the commission of a crime and that the accused is probably the perpetrator of that crime.'”
    3 later decisions 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.