Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2021
15 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 Pisa v. Commonwealth · 281 Pa. Super. 392 - Commonwealth v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Lowery · 270 Pa. Super. 498 - Commonwealth v. Harris
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the acts of a public prosecutor have actually tainted the proceedings so as to require a new trial with a special prosecutor appointed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the resolution of the case rested upon arguments and conclusions of law which would be of no value to him when he became [d]istrict [a]ttorney.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“was not privy to any confidences which may have been devulged [sic] during the pre-trial and trial stages,”
2 later decisions 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.