Commonwealth v. Marcus’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Styer v. Hugo · Cooper v. Delaware Valley Medical Center · Zurn v. Zurn · 326 Pa. Super. 388 - Commonwealth v. Gemelli · Commonwealth v. Blosenski Disposal Service
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Essentially, the intent of Judicial Code § 6107 is to remove any discretion a court might have in determining whether it will take notice of an ordinance. The section does not direct a court to act on its own in obtaining evidence for the record, but it does provide a court with the authority to take whatever steps the court deems necessary to apply an ordinance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. West
How this case has been treated — in progress
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