136 Pa. Super. 306 - Commonwealth v. Donahue’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 1988
2 district · 7 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.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact of penetration may be shown by circumstantial evidence where such evidence is sufficient to satisfy the jury beyond a reasonable doubt. The condition, position, and proximity of the parties, as testified to by the eyewitnesses to the affair, affords sufficient evidence of penetration to warrant the verdict. Appellant and the other party were jointly engaged in the crime, and the only way to prove penetration was by the facts and circumstances. See State v. Gage et al., 139 Iowa 401 , 116 N.W. 596 . “The case was for the jury, and the evidence was sufficient to sustain the conviction.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. State
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.