141 Pa. Super. 272 - Commonwealth v. Rosen’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently June 2009 · most notably Commonwealth v. Yobbagy (1963), Commonwealth v. Musser Forests, Inc. (1958)
34 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 Commonwealth v. Strantz · Commonwealth v. Kluska · Ballantine v. Cummings · Com. v. Benz., Com. v. Routley · Commonwealth v. Bartilson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conspiracy may be inferentially established by showing the relation, conduct, or circumstances of the parties, and the overt acts on the part of co-conspirators have uniformly been held competent *Page 117 to prove that a corrupt confederation has in fact been formed. Where the acts of the parties indicate that they were acting in concert to a common end, the jury properly may be permitted to infer that the concerted action was the result of an unlawful agreement”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When a charge of crime is sought to be sustained by circumstantial evidence, the hypothesis of guilt should flow from the facts and circumstances proved and be consistent with them all. The evidence must be such as to exclude to a moral certainty every hypothesis but that of guilt of the offense imputed. The facts and circumstances must not only be consistent with and point to the guilt of the accused, but they must be inconsistent with his innocence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The heart of every conspiracy is a common understanding, no matter how it comes into being. An explicit or formal agreement to commit crimes can seldom, if ever, be proved and it need not be, for proof of a criminal partnership is almost invariably extracted from the circumstances that attend its activities”
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.