Commonwealth v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently February 2026
9 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 Centolanza v. Lehigh Valley Dairies, Inc. · Kozak v. Struth · 435 Pa. Super. 360 - Hodges v. Rodriguez · 451 Pa. Super. 119 - Commonwealth v. Heberling · Commonwealth v. Thomas
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 5111 thus presents explicit language which clearly defines unlawful activity as any felony or first degree misdemeanor, and targets the dealing in proceeds derived from any of those various illegal activities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hill“any activity graded a misdemeanor of the first degree or higher under Federal or State law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hill“a single course of conduct may constitute a violation of more than one statutory provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re NW
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.