178 Pa. Super. 38 - Commonwealth v. McQueen’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently May 2004
13 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. Barnak · Commonwealth v. Noble · Commonwealth v. Barrish · Commonwealth v. Mills · 158 Pa. Super. 219 - Commonwealth v. Larue
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a person says T was not at the scene of the crime but I do not remember where I was,’ he is not attempting to prove an alibi, even though he naturally had to be elsewhere if he was not at the scene of the crime. What is known in law as an alibi is an attempt by the defendant to prove that he could not have been at the scene of the crime because he was (at) some other definite place. There is a marked difference between saying, T was not at the scene of the crime, and therefore I must have been some other place,’ and saying, T could not have been at the scene of the crime because I was (at) some other specified place.’ “The first is a negative contention. It is not an alibi. The second is an effort to establish his presence at a particular time and place, which would make it impossible for him to have committed the crime. It is an affirmative contention. It is an alibi.” Id. at 40-1 , 112 A. 2d at 822 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Green
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