Commonwealth v. Whiting’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably Commonwealth v. Meadius (2005), State v. Lowther (1989)
27 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. Whitaker · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. McLaughlin · 333 Pa. Super. 617 - Commonwealth v. Ignatavich · 284 Pa. Super. 50 - Commonwealth v. Sires
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus, where a prosecution is voluntarily terminated, and the record shows an attempt to manipulate or evade the requirements of Rule 1100, the speedy trial time period will be computed from the date of the original complaint. But where the record does not show that the Commonwealth’s termination of the prosecution was designed to manipulate or evade the requirements of Rule 1100, the time for computing the speedy trial period runs from the date of the later complaint.” Id. at 24, 500 A.2d at 808.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“A nolle prosequi is a voluntary withdrawal by the prosecuting attorney of proceedings on a particular bill or information, which can at any time be retracted to permit a revival of proceedings on the original bill or information.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Lowther
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.