1999 Pa. Super. 320 - Commonwealth v. Pasley’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 312 Pa. Super. 435 - Commonwealth v. Chance · Consolidated Coal Co. v. Vandruff · Commonwealth v. Berkowitz · 386 Pa. Super. 461 - Commonwealth v. Earnest · Commonwealth v. Prince
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.
“(a) Definition of attempt. — A person commits an attempt when, with intent to commit a specific crime, he does any act which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of that crime.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ppellant, who was only wearing shorts, threw the victim on his bed, straddled her, pushed up her shirt and bra to her neck, and attempted to unbutton her pants”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Dw
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.