Commonwealth v. Thirkield’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently January 2010
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.
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Most-quoted passages
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“); Commonwealth v. Thirkield, 502 Pa. 542, 543 , 467 A.2d 323, 324 (1983) (McDermott, J., dissenting) (“Limiting the admissibility of prior inconsistent statements to impeachment uses severely impedes the truth-determining process. The Court should address this issue and allow the use of such statements as substantive evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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