2004 Pa. Super. 20 - Commonwealth v. Grimes’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2021
8 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. Huggins · Commonwealth v. Comer · Commonwealth v. Heck · Commonwealth v. Petroll · Commonwealth v. Samuels
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person acts recklessly with respect to a material element of an offense when he consciously disregards a substantial and unjustifiable risk that the material element exists or will result from his conduct. The risk must be of such a nature and degree that, considering the nature and intent of the actor’s conduct and the circumstances known to him, its disregard involves a gross deviation from the standard of conduct that a reasonable person would observe in the actor’s situation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any person who recklessly or with gross negligence causes the death of another person while engaged in the violation of any law of this Commonwealth or municipal ordinance applying to the operation or use of a vehicle or to the regulation of traffic except section 3802 (relating to driving under influence of alcohol or controlled substance) is guilty of homicide by vehicle, a felony of the third degree, when the violation is the cause of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he December 20, 2000 amendment to [s]ection 3732 substituted 'recklessly or with gross negligence’ for 'unintentionally' and increased the offense from a misdemeanor of the first degree to a felony of the third degree.” Commonwealth v. Grimes, 842 A.2d 432, 434 (Pa.Super.2004); 75 Pa.C.S. § 3732 historical and statutory notes (Act 2000-108 legislation). . We note that the July 11, 1996, amendment to section 3735”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. Commonwealth
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.