Commonwealth v. Browne’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Hill (1999), Commonwealth v. Matis (1998)
50 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. Mayfield · Commonwealth v. Ehredt · Commonwealth v. Polsky · 317 Pa. Super. 412 - Commonwealth v. Colon · 309 Pa. Super. 415 - Commonwealth v. Lamb
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The District Attorney’s office] ... must, to be diligent, have simple systems in place to carry out the routine duties of the office. ... Practicing lawyers must maintain docket books to make sure that they appear in court on the right date, file pleadings on time, complete discovery in a timely fashion, and do not run afoul of statutes of limitations. No less is required of a properly administered district attorney’s office.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[W]e have become concerned that the Superior Court is more and more inclined to accept any and every excuse for failure to bring a criminal case to trial within the period prescribed by Rule 1100, and ... this case presented the opportunity to prevent further emasculation of Rule 1100.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"When a case has possible Rule 1100 problems, prosecutors must do everything reasonable within their power to see that the case is tried on time." Commonwealth v. Smith, 477 Pa. 424, 428 , 383 A.2d 1280, 1282 (1978). [ See also ] Commonwealth v. Polsky, 493 Pa. 402 , 426 A.2d 610 (1981). The test to be met is whether the Commonwealth's efforts to bring the defendant to trial were reasonable and pursued with diligence.”
2 later decisions 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.