Commonwealth v. Pollack’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1998
10 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 159 Pa. Super. 45 - Commonwealth v. Joyce · 154 Pa. Super. 8 - Commonwealth v. Meyers · 169 Pa. Super. 88 - Commonwealth v. Roth
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Unexplained possession in the defendant of property recently stolen is evidence of guilt . . . Since the Commonwealth had no direct proof of defendant’s guilty knowledge, it remains to examine the reasonableness of defendant’s explanation of his possession of the toaster. His story was deemed ‘unconvincing’ by the court below. If his explanation, which is■ clearly for the trier of fact, is disbelieved, his possession remains unexplained and is therefore evidence against him. In addition, there was evidence that the toaster was worth much more than the price asked by defendant, a fact which may give rise to an inference of guilt. Also, Gansky testified that the defendant told him conflicting stories as to his possession of the goods.” (emphasis supplied).”
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.