Commonwealth v. Twiggs’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
28
cited by 28 later decisions
1
states following
February 1988
most recently cited
28 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Zurcher v. Stanford Daily · Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Commonwealth v. Clair · Commonwealth v. Blair · Flightways Corp. v. Keystone Helicopter Corp.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[d]espite our express January 1975 mandate in Blair that ‘issues not presented in compliance with the rule will not be considered by our trial and appellate courts,’ the post-verdict court nonetheless undertook to consider and decide the issues on its own motion. Such action by the trial court does not alter this Court’s rule that issues not raised in post-verdict motions will not be considered by our trial or appellate courts.” Commonwealth v. Twiggs, 485 Pa. at 484 , 402 A.2d at 1376 .”
1 later decision 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.