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Commonwealth v. Tharp’s Empirical Analysis

2000

Citation profile

14
cited by 14 later decisions
1
states following
June 2013
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 13 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Singer v. United States · Commonwealth v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Wallace · STANDER v. Kelley · Commonwealth v. Puksar

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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Trial by jury shall be as heretofore and the right thereof remains inviolate. The General Assembly may provide, however, by law, that a verdict may be rendered by not less than five-sixths of the jury in any civil case. Furthermore, in criminal cases the Commonwealth shall have the same right to trial by jury as does the accused.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “An amicus curiae is not a party and cannot raise issues that have not been raised or preserved by the parties. See Pa. R.A.P. 531(a) ( amicus curiae may file brief regarding only those questions that are before the Court).”
    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.