116 Pa. Super. 180 - Commonwealth v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““Of course, the indictment must be drawn with reasonable clearness and certainty to show the substance, time and place of the alleged offense, so that a defendant may be informed in an intelligent manner of what he is called upon to answer and protected against a second conviction of the same offense: Seifried v. Com., 101 Pa. 200 ; Com. v. Romesburg, 91 Pa. Superior Ct. 559, 562 . ‘The particularity demanded, however, is only of the degree required in declarations, — “certainty to a certain intent in general;” or that which, upon a fair and reasonable construction, may be called certain, and in which the averments of matters obviously arising from implication is unnecessary: [citing cases]. “ ‘Whether the indictment, in the case before us, might not have been framed with greater precision and certainty, on the points embraced in the motion to quash, need not be considered; we have only to determine whether it sets forth, with the requisite certainty, the essentials of the offense which it is dessigned [sic] to charge’: Com. v. White, 24 Pa. Superior Ct. 178, 180 . See, also, Com. v. Frey, supra ( 50 Pa. 245 ). This indictment stood these legal tests.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Yon