Commonwealth v. Failor’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Fithian (2008), Commonwealth v. Laird (2010)
41 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. Bracalielly · Wertz v. Chapman Township · Commonwealth v. Tarver · Commonwealth v. Holmes
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the former prosecution resulted in an acquittal or a conviction; (2) the current prosecution must be based on the same criminal conduct or have arisen from the same criminal episode as the former prosecution; (3) the prosecutor must have been aware of the current charges before the commencement of ■the trial for the former charges; and (4) the current charges and the former charges must be within the jurisdiction of a single court.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The former prosecution resulted in an acquittal or in a conviction ... and the subsequent prosecution is for: (ii) any offense based on the same conduct or arising from the same criminal episode, if such offense was known to the appropriate prosecuting officer at the time of the commencement of the first trial and was within the jurisdiction of a single court unless the court ordered a separate trial of the charge of such offense ....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“arose during the same criminal episode, namely one traffic stop[,]”
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.