2002 Pa. Super. 151 - Commonwealth v. Carmody’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Brown (2012), 2006 Pa. Super. 204 - Commonwealth v. Levanduski (2006)
31 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 In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · City of Hazleton v. City Council · Holywell Corp. v. Bank of New York · Commonwealth v. Brady · Commonwealth v. Lively
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[An excited utterance is a] spontaneous declaration by a person whose mind has been suddenly made subject to an overpowering emotion caused by some unexpected and shocking occurrence, which that person had just participated in or closely witnessed, and made in reference to some phase of that occurrence which he perceived, and this declaration must be made so near the occurrence both in time and place as to exclude the likelihood of its being emanated in whole or in part from his reflective faculties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]hese facts militate against a finding of spontaneity.... Under these facts, we find the form of the statement, coupled with the circumstances under which it was given, preclude it from being admissible as an excited utterance.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he crucial question, regardless of the time lapse, is whether, at the time the statement is made, the nervous excitement continues to dominate while the reflective processes remain in abeyance.”
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.