Commonwealth v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 1997
most recently cited
6 state decisions
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) The president judge may assign temporarily the issuing authority of any magisterial district to serve another magisterial district whenever such assignment is needed to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (a), to insure fair and impartial proceedings, or otherwise for the efficient administration of justice____”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
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