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← 18 PAD&C4TH 53 - Commonwealth v. Kemp

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.

  1. “[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
  2. “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.