Commonwealth v. Wimberly’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Buehl (1986), Borough of West Chester v. Lal (1981)
60 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 United States v. Jorn · United States v. Scott · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · Ball v. United States · United States v. Wilson
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is well settled that an order granting a demurrer, properly entered, [7] is purely a question of law and is appealable by the Commonwealth.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“We do not condone that practice in the instant case, nor do we anticipate the practice will be indulged in future cases.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[i]n those cases where this Court has concluded that a demurrer was granted in error, we have remanded for new trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Com. v. Zoller
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.