2003 Pa. Super. 65 - Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 2018
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. New · Commonwealth v. Kennedy · 431 Pa. Super. 453 - Commonwealth v. Swerdlow · Mistick, Inc. v. Northwestern National Casualty Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When two equally reasonable and mutually inconsistent inferences can be drawn from the same set of circumstances, a jury must not be permitted to guess which inference it will adopt, especially when one of the two guesses may result in depriving a defendant of his life or his liberty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Is the evidence insufficient as a matter of law ... because attempt crimes require a specific intent and in the trial court's own words, the Commonwealth presented 'no evidence of an intended victim[?]'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“two opposing and mutually inconsistent inferences could be drawn from the facts presented herein”
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.