2000 Pa. Super. 28 - Commonwealth v. Garcia’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ashe v. Swenson · Commonwealth v. Craver · Spring Garden Civic Ass'n v. Zoning Hearing Board of Adjustment of the City of Philadelphia · Commonwealth v. Valette · Commonwealth v. Hude
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.
“Pennsylvania courts have adopted a three-step approach in application of the doctrine of collateral estoppel: 1) while the offenses charged in the two offenses need not be the same, the issues must be similar and material; 2) collateral estoppel only bars redetermination of those issues necessarily determined and litigated between the parties in the first proceeding; and 3) collateral estoppel requires a final judgment in the first proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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