Commonwealth v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Starks (1980), Borough of West Chester v. Lal (1981)
28 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 Commonwealth v. Bolden · Commonwealth v. Hamilton · Commonwealth v. Starks · United States of America Ex Rel. Keith Webb v. Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, the District Attorney of Philadelphia County · Fain v. Duff
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant argues that his retrial should have been barred because the prosecutor in the aborted first trial engaged in either intentional or grossly negligent misconduct by referring to Crawford’s having taken a polygraph examination. The test to be applied is whether the Commonwealth engaged in either intentional or bad faith “overreaching.” Commonwealth v. Starks, 490 Pa. 336 , 416 A.2d 498 (1980). In our view, references to a polygraph examination in the instant case does not rise to either level of overreaching. Instantly, the prosecutor, in the heat of legal argument and responding to a question from the Court, informed the Court that the witness in question had taken a polygraph examination. The trial court recognized this misconduct as error and granted appellant a mistrial. In our view, however, this type of prosecutorial misconduct, although erroneous, does not require the extreme sanction of barring retrial of appellant. Appellant’s argument is thus without merit.”
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.