Commonwealth v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 2023 · most notably 413 Pa. Super. 95 - Commonwealth v. Kennedy (1992), 437 Pa. Super. 471 - Commonwealth v. Davis (1994)
25 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. Dugger · 378 Pa. Super. 379 - Commonwealth v. Moore
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Section 521.15. Confidentiality of reports and records “State and local health authorities may not disclose reports of diseases, any records maintained as a result of any action taken in consequence of such reports, or any other records maintained pursuant to this act or any regulations, to any person who is not a member of the department or of a local board or department of health, except where necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act.” 35 P.S. §521.15.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It should be readily apparent that the general powers of courts do not include the power to order disclosure of materials that the legislature has explicitly directed be kept confidential.”
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.