163 Pa. Super. 279 - Commonwealth v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably 329 Pa. Super. 383 - Butler v. DeLuca (1984), 106 N.J. Super. 61 - Jackson v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America (1969)
27 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 147 Pa. Super. 121 - Commonwealth v. Rex · Souchek v. Karr
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 27 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“"From the admissions of this prosecutrix, the father of her child might have been either Freeman or the defendant, and she cannot be permitted to choose between them. The Commonwealth's testimony therefore falls far short of proof of bastardy beyond reasonable doubt and does not rise higher than a mere balance of probabilities as to which of the two was responsible for her conception. Under the circumstances, certainly, defendant is entitled to a new trial at least. But in view of the fact that we could not permit any subsequent conviction of bastardy to stand because of the testimony of the prosecutrix at the present trial, we will make final disposition of the charge."”
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.