Commonwealth v. ROGERS’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently December 1981
6 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. Nasuti · 186 Pa. Super. 442 - Commonwealth v. Prep · 147 Pa. Super. 410 - Commonwealth v. Mezick · State v. Pollard
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is also well settled that prosecution for a criminal conspiracy may be brought in the county where the unlawful combination or confederacy was formed, or in any county where an overt act was committed by any of the conspirators in furtherance of that unlawful combination or confederacy. Com. v. Prep, supra, 186 Pa. Superior Ct. 442, 450 , 142 A. 2d 460 ; Com. v. Mezick, 147 Pa. Superior Ct. 410, 413 , 24 A. 2d 762 . We said in the Prep case (page 451 of 186 Pa. Superior Ct., page 465 of 142 A. 2d):”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a well established theory of the law that, where one puts in force an agency for the commission of crime, he, in legal contemplation, accompanies the same to the point where it becomes effectual; . . .”
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.