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← 524 PA 53 - Commonwealth v. Maxwell

Commonwealth v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis

1989

Citation profile

9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2020
most recently cited

9 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Passaro

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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “It being brought to the attention of this Court that, on August 20, 1989, the Appellant escaped from the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon, the appeal is dismissed,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.