Marsch v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently December 2013 · most notably Sanborn v. Commonwealth (1988), Sanders v. Commonwealth (1990)
2 federal appellate · 35 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 Taylor v. Kentucky · Ward v. Commonwealth · 286 Pa. Super. 409 - Commonwealth v. Stamm · Pennington v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Callahan
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[Ijrrespective of the answer given on voir dire, the Court should presume the likelihood of prejudice on the part of a prospective juror because the potential juror has such a close relationship, be it familial, financial or situational, with parties, counsel, victims or witnesses.” Ward at 407 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Without forewarning to the trial bar, we have quietly and subtly shifted this rule to a new one stating that no prejudice is presumed when a party is forced to use peremptory challenges to excuse jurors who should have been excused for cause unless that party not only then exhausts all peremptory challenges available to him, but also requests additional challenges on grounds that he was unfairly denied challenges for cause, or, at the least, before having a right to complain a party must state on the record additional persons against whom he would have exercised peremptory challenges had such challenges been available to him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“engaged at length in a discussion of reasonable doubt. He asked [prospective juror] Kirk if he equated “beyond a shadow of a doubt” with “reasonable doubt.” He provided an example using himself as a hypothetical witness to an accident and suggested to the prospec tive juror that his hypothetical testimony would satisfy the “reasonable doubt” standard, but might not eliminate any possibility of doubt. Finally, the attorney for the Commonwealth explained that there was a significant distinction between being convinced beyond a reasonable doubt and being convinced beyond all or a shadow of a doubt.”
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.