Commonwealth v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 429 Pa. Super. 180 - Commonwealth v. Dietterick (1993), 401 Pa. Super. 490 - Commonwealth v. Leet (1991)
28 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 Safeguard Mutual Insurance v. Williams · Philadelphia Fire Officers Ass'n v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board · Hartshorn v. County of Allegheny · 12 Pa. Commw. 517 - Venneri v. County of Allegheny · Pennsylvania Social Services Local 668 v. Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen vesting a group with police powers and duties, the Legislature does so with specificity.”
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.