2003 Pa. Super. 413 - Commonwealth v. Dale’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2023
19 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. Widmer · Commonwealth v. Anderson · Commonwealth v. Smith · 424 Pa. Super. 242 - Commonwealth v. Seibert · 445 Pa. Super. 43 - Commonwealth v. Vitale
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“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.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“A claim challenging the evidence is a question of law. Evidence will be deemed sufficient to support the verdict when it establishes each material element of the crime charged and the commission thereof by the accused, beyond a reasonable doubt.... When reviewing a sufficiency claim the court is required to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict winner giving the prosecution the benefit of all reasonable inferences to be drawn from the evidence.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In conducting our review, we consider all of the evidence actually admitted at trial and do not review a diminished record.”
2 later decisions 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.