147 Pa. Super. 121 - Commonwealth v. Rex’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently June 1984
20 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 Muslera v. Patton Clay Manufacturing Co. · Goater v. Klotz · Krause v. Commonwealth · Pauli 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where bastardy is charged, a fact extremely important in the inquiry is whether the mother of the child had connection with others than the defendant at or about the time the child was begotten. If so, it is impossible for her to determine to which of them her conception is to be imputed. Com. v. Fritz, 4 Clark 219. The admission of a number of connections at about the time of conception destroys her competency as a witness to prove that the defendant is the father. It is only where such relations with others are denied by the mother and the proof of them rests upon the testimony of other witnesses that an issue for the jury is presented. Com. v. McCarty, 2 Clark 351; Com. v. Eaby, 52 Pa.Super. 619 ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the interests of the liberty of the citizens a court may and, in a proper case, should declare the evidence insufficient to convict. [Citations omitted.] A jury cannot be permitted to guess. Id., 147 Pa.Super. at 124 , 24 A.2d 98 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]lmost every definite statement made by her . . . is contradicted elsewhere in her testimony . . . .”
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.