Commonwealth v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently April 2008 · most notably Commonwealth v. Williams (1994), Commonwealth v. James (1985)
2 federal appellate · 52 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. Blair · Commonwealth v. Scott · Commonwealth v. Waters · Jerry Allen Arnold v. D. J. McCarthy Superintendent, California Men's Colony · Commonwealth v. Bartolomucci
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court denied the motion, finding that it was untimely. The motion was a proper subject to a pre-trial motion. See Pa.R.Crim.P. 306. The motion was untimely unless there was no previous opportunity to make it or Appellant or his attorney were unaware of the grounds for it. Pa.R.Crim.P. 307.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Commonwealth v. Fava
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.