Commonwealth v. Ryder’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
September 1988
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Tervalon · Commonwealth v. Sheehan · Commonwealth v. Treftz · Commonwealth v. Coleman · Commonwealth v. Valderrama
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) That [the petitioner’s] conviction or sentence resulted from ...: (xiii) The unavailability at the time of trial of exculpatory evidence that has subsequently become available and that would have affected the outcome of the trial if it had been introduced. 42 Pa.C.S. § 9543(3)(xiii). 4”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Commonwealth v. Frey
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.