2004 Pa. Super. 457 - Commonwealth v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2014
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on City of Erie v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board · Parish v. Horn · Commonwealth v. Paddy · Commonwealth v. Minerd · 262 Pa. Super. 540 - Commonwealth v. Gore
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial court is not ... required to sanitize the trial to eliminate all unpleasant facts from ... consideration where those facts are relevant to the issues at hand and form part of the history and natural development of the events and offenses for which the defendant is charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“By their very nature, sexual assault cases have a pronounced dearth of independent eyewitnesses, and there is rarely any accompanying physical evidence.... [In these] cases the credibility of the complaining witness is always an issue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“have long recognized the special significance of evidence which provides [the factfinder] with the res gestae, or complete history, of a crime.”
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.