161 Pa. Super. 613 - Commonwealth v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently January 1984 · most notably 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor (1984), Commonwealth v. Walton (1979)
23 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 Seth Carter v. State of Texas · United States v. Gale · Commonwealth v. Musto · Commonwealth v. Wallace · Commonwealth v. Johnson
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘A criminal false pretense has been said to be “the false representation of an existing fact, whether by oral or written words or conduct, which is calculated to deceive, intended to deceive, and does, in fact, deceive, and by means of which one person obtains value from another without compensation”: Com. v. Goldberg et al., 130 Pa. Superior Ct. 252, 260 , 196 A. 538, 542 . In order to bring a case within the statute, the following elements must co-exist: (1) a false pretense ; (2) an obtaining of property or something of value thereby; (3) an intent to defraud.’ Com. v. Gross, 161 Pa. Superior Ct. 613, 618 , 56 A. 2d 303, 306 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is true that a complaint or information must contain all the essential elements of the offense sought to be charged, and, if it fails in this respect, it is not sufficient that the indictment supplied them because the defendant should not be required to answer a charge different from and unrelated to the one for which he was arrested and held to bail.””
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.