Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2017
20 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. Hude · Commonwealth v. Russo · 257 Pa. Super. 369 - Commonwealth v. Broughton · 399 Pa. Super. 266 - Commonwealth v. Johnson · Commonwealth v. Butler
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The [cjourt has reviewed the relevant record and finds, regardless of the issue of abandonment or no abandonment, (the record before the [cjourt is not completely clear whether the claims against Jones and WFJ were abandoned ...) the documentation and averments of [Canoe and Appellant] do not sufficiently make out a case of Perjury charges against Jones or WFJ. Perjury concerns statements that are made in an official proceeding and under oath which are materially false to the matter of the official proceeding. The specific statutory section reads: A person is guilty of perjury, a felony of the third degree, if in any official proceeding, he makes a false statement under oath or equivalent affirmation, or swears or affirms the truth of a statement previously made, when the statement is material and he does not believe it to be true. There is not even an allegation here that any of the statements were made under oath in an official proceeding where testimony was being taken. The statements were written in a legal brief that, to the [cjourt’s review, was not even prepared or signed by Jones or WFJ. Further, as noted, even the documentation submitted by [Canoe and Appellant] in part indicates that the claims against Jones had not been abandoned by the Trustee. The District Attorney, under these circumstances and based on the documentation, was in no way remiss in not approving a perjury complaint here. Although the [cjourt is empowered to review the decision of the District Attor”
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.