Commonwealth v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2014
4 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 Buck v. Commonwealth
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“More than a century ago, in Buck v. Commonwealth, 107 Pa. 486 (1884), the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that a party cannot prove a conviction by putting the question to the allegedly convicted person upon cross-examination. "The proper mode of proving a conviction for ... any ... crime ... is the production of the record. It is the highest and best evidence." 107 Pa. at 491 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to embark upon what would be an unsound practicereliance upon the testimony of drivers to prove their own convictions, in place of the proper official certifications which are necessarily available in their own files.”
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.