Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
66 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 66 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably Commonwealth v. LaCava (1995), 299 Pa. Super. 64 - Commonwealth v. Sanford (1982)
66 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. Logan · Commonwealth v. Unger · Commonwealth v. Colbert · 254 Pa. Super. 464 - Commonwealth v. Wyant · 261 Pa. Super. 532 - Commonwealth v. Holcomb
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 66 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of establishing the ground upon which post-conviction relief is requested rests upon the person seeking that relief”
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.