155 Pa. Super. 120 - Commonwealth v. Dellcese’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 1975
11 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. Simpson · Commonwealth v. Micuso · Commonwealth v. Aurick · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Wallace
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If, as here, the act in itself, the driving of the car is not unlawful, that is contrary to law, then to make the act criminal The negligence must be such a departure from what would be the conduct of an ordinary prudent or careful man under the same circumstances as to evidence a disregard of human life or ah indifference to consequences’. 90 American State Reports 572, cited by the Supreme Court in Commonwealth v. Aurick, supra, pp. 288, 289 . There must be an element of recklessness or rashness.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Page
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.