2003 Pa. Super. 354 - Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2024
15 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 Lee v. Brown · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Anthony · 2002 Pa. Super. 82 - Commonwealth v. Lambert · 403 Pa. Super. 223 - Commonwealth v. Leib · 425 Pa. Super. 24 - Commonwealth v. Bowser
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Offense defined.-A person shall not drive, operate or be in actual physical control of the movement of any vehicle in any of the following circumstances: (1) While under the influence of alcohol to a degree which renders the person incapable of safe driving. * * * * * * (4) While the amount of alcohol by weight in the blood of: (i) an adult is 0.10% or greater;...””
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well settled that in order to be convicted under this statute, the Commonwealth need not prove that the vehicle was in motion at the time of the incident, but rather, must simply prove that the defendant was in actual physical control over the vehicle, and was, thus, a threat to public safety. The concept of ‘actual physical control’ involves the control of the movements of either the machinery of a motor vehicle or of the management of the vehicle itself, without a requirement that the entire vehicle be in motion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“§ 3731. Driving under influence of alcohol or controlled substance (a) Offense defined.-A person shall not drive, operate or be in actual physical control of the movement of a vehicle in any of the following circumstances: (1) While under the influence of alcohol to a degree which renders the person incapable of safe driving. (4) While the amount of alcohol by weight in the blood of: (i) an adult is 0.10% or greater;”
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.