Commonwealth v. Cohen’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
99 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 99 later decisions — most recently July 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bussey (1979), Commonwealth v. Morgan (1979)
99 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. Shelton · Commonwealth v. Mitchell · Commonwealth v. Woods
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 99 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] defendant on bail who fails to appear at a court proceeding, of which he has been properly notified, is unavailable from the time of that proceeding until he is subsequently apprehended or until he voluntarily surrenders himself. In such a case the Commonwealth is entitled to an exclusion of this period under [Pa.R.Crim.P. 1100(d)(1) ] without the requirement of a showing of its efforts to apprehend the defendant during the period of his absence. Commonwealth v. Cohen, 481 Pa. 349, 356 , 392 A.2d 1327, 1331 (1978).”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“(d) In determining the period for commencement of trial, there shall be excluded therefrom such period of delay at any stage of the proceedings as results from:”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When a person is admitted to bail, the conditions of the bail bond shall be that such person will: * * * * * * (c) give written notice to the issuing authority, the clerk of courts, the district attorney, and court bail agency or other designated court bail officer, of any change of address within forty-eight (48) hours of the date of such change.... ””
3 later decisions 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.