Commonwealth v. Coder’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably 452 Pa. Super. 508 - Commonwealth v. Larsen (1996), Commonwealth v. Garzone (2012)
32 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 Fuller v. Oregon · Lepley v. Lycoming County Court of Common Pleas · Commonwealth v. Davy · 239 Pa. Super. 440 - Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Soudani
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“when a person commits a crime which stirs wide community interest, either because the crime is heinous or its perpetrator is a person invested with a public trust, publicity will follow inevitably. The ensuing publicity should be readily foreseeable by the perpetrator of the crime, so that it is neither arbitrary, capricious nor unreasonable to hold him responsible for the dysfunction his conduct caused the criminal justice system.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the prosecution is primarily responsible for the conditions which necessitate the change of venue, the defendant should be absolved of the costs incident to the change of venue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]he purpose of [ Section 1403 ] is to recoup the costs of trial where a jury finds the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt[.]”
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.