166 Pa. Super. 625 - Commonwealth v. Bowes’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 district · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1991 · most notably Kuhns v. Brugger (1957), 362 Pa. Super. 176 - Commonwealth v. Westcott (1987)
2 district · 25 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. Kluska · State v. Murry · 151 Pa. Super. 555 - Commonwealth v. Moon · 132 Pa. Super. 507 - Commonwealth v. Gregory · 134 Pa. Super. 183 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Case v. Smith, Warden
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.
“To constitute the crimes of rape there must be penetration, however slight. (Res in re, but entrance in the labia sufficient: 44 Am.Jur., Rape, § 3).”
2 later decisions 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.