Commonwealth v. Matis’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. Boczkowski (2004), Commonwealth v. Hill (1999)
71 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 California v. Southland Royalty Co. · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Commonwealth v. Dugger · City of Hazleton v. City Council · Stout v. Commonwealth ex rel. Preate
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(c) In determining the period for commencement of trial, there shall be excluded therefrom: (1) the period of time between the filing of the written complaint and the defendant's arrest, provided that the defendant could not be apprehended because his or her whereabouts were unknown and could not be determined by due diligence; (2) any period of time for which the defendant expressly waives Rule 1100; (3) such period of delay at any stage of the proceedings as results from: (i) the unavailability of the defendant or the defendant's attorney; (ii) any continuance granted at the request of the defendant or the defendant's attorney.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“There is no-essential difference between suppression rulings and rulings on motions in limine to admit or exclude evidence. In both cases, a pretrial ruling is handed down which admits or excludes evidence at trial, and in both cases, once a jury is sworn, the Commonwealth may not appeal from an adverse ruling. That suppression motions are always of constitutional dimension and motions in limine are only sometimes of constitutional dimension is of no import, for in both cases, without an immediate right of review, the Commonwealth’s case may be so hampered that the Commonwealth may be unable to proceed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“everything reasonable within its power to guarantee that [the] trial begins on time,”
2 later decisions 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.