Commonwealth v. Yarris’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 114 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Bennett (2007), Commonwealth v. Gamboa-Taylor (2000)
3 federal appellate · 103 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 Brady v. State of Maryland · Simmons v. South Carolina · Trident Associates Ltd. Partnership v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. · Hayes v. Lockhart · McKinney v. Baldwin
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 114 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Time for filing petition.- (1) Any petition under this subchap-ter, including a second or subsequent petition, shall be filed within one year of the date the judgment becomes final, unless the petition alleges and the petitioner proves that: (i) the failure to raise the claim previously was the result of interference by government officials with the presentation of the claim in violation of the Constitution or laws of this Commonwealth or the Constitution or laws of the United States; (ii) the facts upon which the claim is predicated were unknown to the petitioner and could not have been ascertained by the exercise of due diligence; or (iii) the right asserted is a constitutional right that was recognized by the Supreme Court of the United States or the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania after the time period provided in this section and has been held by that court to apply retroactively. (2) Any petition invoking an exception provided in paragraph (1) shall be filed within 60 days from the date the claim could have been presented. (3) For purposes of this subchapter, a judgment becomes final at the conclusion of direct review, including discretionary review in the Supreme Court of the United States and the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, or at the expiration of time for seeking the review. (4) For purposes of this subchapter, “government officials” shall not include defense counsel, whether appointed or retained.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“That is, he must show that his failure to raise these claims previously was the result of illegal interference by government officials, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(1)(i), or that facts upon which his claims rest were unknown and could not have been ascertained with due diligence, or that he is asserting a newly recognized constitutional right, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(1)(ii), (iii) and that the petition raising these claims was filed within 60 days of the date the claim could have been presented, 42 Pa.C.S. § 9545(b)(2).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Gallman] has not shown how [Stroman]'s statement would have changed the outcome of the trial because of the other overwhelming evidence of guilt in this case. [Gall-man] admitted that the decedent had put the gun back in the Jeep, and that he knew the victim was unarmed when [Gallman] fired the fatal gun shots. As a result, even if the jury were to believe that there was a gun in the Jeep, it would not negate the conviction because the victim was clearly unarmed when he was killed. Further more, the victim was shot from behind while he was walking back to his Jeep.”
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.