Commonwealth v. Unger’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently June 2007 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jackson (1981), 413 Pa. Super. 235 - Commonwealth v. Eicher (1992)
64 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 Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Cogdell v. United States · Commonwealth v. Willis · Aiken Industries, Inc. v. Estate of Wilson · Commonwealth v. Chumley
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]his cannot be prejudicial to the appellant where the same issues not only could have been considered on the merits in the collateral PCHA hearing (.. . but in fact were considered on the merits in the PCHA hearing . . . . ” Commonwealth v. Unger, 494 Pa. 592, 598 , 432 A.2d 146, 149 (1981) (citations omitted) (emphasis in original).”
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.