Commonwealth v. Stickle’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Harper (1979), Commonwealth v. Council (1980)
43 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · United States v. Agurs · Schmerber v. State of California · United States v. Dionisio · United States v. Mara
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a person is an admitted participant in a crime and police secure a . .. warrant upon information received from him, affiant-officers need not support their claim that the informant was credible or his information reliable since the individual’s admission of participation in the crime insures his reliability. Commonwealth v. Stickle, supra, 484 Pa. at 97-98 , 398 A.2d at 961-962 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where a witness has observed an occurrence and formed an impression thereof, the fact that, at the trial, due to the passage of time and the fading of memory, she is not able to state with positive or absolute certainty exactly what she observed, but only what ‘I think’ or 1 vaguely remember’ occurred, will not preclude the introduction of the witness’ testimony. (Emphasis in original.)”
1 later decision 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.