Commonwealth v. Kindler’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2016
4 federal appellate · 12 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 Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Molinaro v. New Jersey · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer · Ortega-Rodriguez v. United States · Zettlemoyer v. Pennsylvania
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This Court’s decision in Appellant’s direct appeal rested on a firm foundation based, in part, on Commonwealth v. Passaro, 504 Pa. 611 , 476 A.2d 346 (1984). In Passaro , this Court decided that a defendant, whose direct appeal was quashed because of his escape from custody during the pendency of that appeal, was not entitled to have his appeal reinstated following his recapture. In so doing we reiterated that, “a defendant who deliberately chooses to bypass the orderly procedures afforded one convicted of a crime for challenging his conviction is bound by the consequences of his decision.” Id. at 613 , 476 A.2d at 347 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[I]t would be anomalous to permit Appellant to prevail on this claim and then to subject the trial court to a remand order requiring it to rule on the merits of these same [issues] which were raised, or which would have been raised, at an earlier time and which could have been addressed had Appellant demonstrated some kind of respect for the trial court and legal process.”
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.