Commonwealth v. Kemp’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
2
states following
June 2012
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Broadrick v. Oklahoma · Connally v. General Construction Co. · Lanzetta v. State New Jersey · Rose v. Locke · Burns v. Alcala
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] person is not guilty of an offense unless his liability is based on conduct which includes a voluntary act or the omission to perform an act of which he is physically capable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“18 Pa. C.S. § 301(a). Yet, the inevitable, biological flow of blood is surely not a”
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.