7 canonical passages across 6 cases, quoted by 28 opinions in total. These passages cluster together because the same opinions keep quoting them side by side — they state parts of one doctrine. The anchor passage is from PA. GAMEFOWL BA v. Com. of Pa..
| # | Case | Flag | Canonical passage | Citers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | PA. GAMEFOWL BA v. Com. of Pa. Anchor | green | “district attorneys are charged with conducting criminal prosecutions in the name of the commonwealth, but only in the county in which the district attorney is elected.” | 4 |
| 2 | Beckert v. Warren | green | “a basic precept of our form of government is that the executive, the legislature and the judiciary, are independent, coequal branches of government,.. o branch should exercise the functions exclusively committed to another branch.” | 4 |
| 3 | Commonwealth v. Buonopane | green | “not only did the trial court abuse its discretion in granting appellee's pretrial motion, it never had the discretion to determine whether the commonwealth should have proceeded with the prosecution as a capital case in the first place.” | 4 |
| 4 | Rosenwald v. Barbieri | green | “the term 'related staff covers those whose function aids the judicial process but who are not supervised by the courts” | 4 |
| 5 | Rosenwald v. Barbieri | green | “these definitions! clearly distinguish between 'personnel of the system' and 'related staff.” | 4 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania State EduCation Ass'n ex rel. Wilson v. Commonwealth, Department of Community & Economic Development | green | “n 1957 the pennsylvania general assembly codified the common law right to inspect public records by enacting the rtka to provide public access to public records.” | 4 |
| 7 | Mooney v. Temple University of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education Board of Trustees | green | “there is a well-established right at common, law to inspect public records upon request in a reasonable manner.” | 4 |
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