Wolbrecht v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
August 2017
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Stirone v. United States · Commonwealth v. Ellis · Brown v. Commonwealth · Schambon v. Commonwealth · Payne 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may permit an indictment ... to be amended any time before verdict if no additional or different offense is charged and if substantial rights of the defendant are not prejudiced. If justice requires, however, the court shall grant the defendant a continuance when such an amendment is permitted.”
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.