Commonwealth v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently November 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Yarris (1999), Commonwealth v. Matis (1998)
34 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 Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Campana
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he Supreme Court shall have exclusive jurisdiction of appeals from final orders of the Commonwealth Court entered in any matter which was originally commenced in the Commonwealth Court except an order entered in a matter which constitutes an appeal to the Commonwealth Court from another court, a magisterial district judge or another governmental unit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The defendant, by opposing the [prosecution's] motion to [join two cases], has waived any allegations of prejudice or inconvenience resulting from the prospect of multiple trials.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. People v. Marshall
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.