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← 501 Pa. 178 - Commonwealth v. Harris

Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis

1983

Citation profile

16
cited by 16 later decisions
3
states following
April 2021
most recently cited

15 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently April 2021

15 state decisions

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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.

  1. “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
  2. “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
  3. “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.