169 Pa. Super. 623 - Commonwealth v. Gipe’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2019
8 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 Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Holly v. Ashe · 146 Pa. Super. 564 - Commonwealth v. Levy · 162 Pa. Super. 39 - Commonwealth Ex Rel. Madden v. Ashe · Groff v. Groff
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Comparisons of handwriting may by made by a jury. Expert testimony to authenticity is not necessary and the jury may, by comparison of writings, decide whether the authenticated writing was made by the same person as the writing in dispute. (Citation omitted) Commonwealth v. Gipe, 169 Pa. Super. 623, 626 , 84 A.2d 366, 368 (Pa. Super., 1951) [Appellant] essentially argues that the Commonwealth failed to establish that he was the author of the”
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.