Commonwealth v. Sneed’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 398 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 465 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Cooper v. Delaware Valley Medical Center (1995), 125 Ill. 2d 50 - People v. Evans (1988)
11 federal appellate · 4 district · 398 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 United States v. Lovasco · Lockhart v. McCree · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer
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 465 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notably, 'it is elemental that, '[a]n out of court statement which is not offered for its truth, but to explain the witness' course of conduct is not hearsay.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The prosecutor is permitted, by the terms of the statute, to argue in favor of the death penalty. 42 Pa.C.S. § 9711(a)(3). This rule recognizes the reality that the balance of principles governing the course of argument during the guilt phase of trial [is] altered during the penalty phase of trial. The prosecutor must be permitted to argue the appropriateness of the death penalty as applied to the circumstances because that is the only issue before the jury at the penalty phase of trial.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Lee“really hoping that your bail gets lowered.”
1 later decision 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.