2005 Pa. Super. 353 - Commonwealth v. Greenberg’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2020
7 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. DeJesus · Commonwealth v. Comer · 2003 Pa. Super. 285 - Commonwealth v. Bullick · 172 Pa. Super. 65 - Commonwealth v. Forrey · 1999 Pa. Super. 110 - Commonwealth v. Kling
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.
“§ 3714. Careless driving (a) General rule. — Any person who drives a vehicle in careless disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of careless driving, a summary offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 3736. Reckless driving (a) General rule. — Any person who drives any vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“I personally believe that the rate of speed this young man was traveling on this highway causing this kind of damage with these kinds of warnings on the highway and so forth about speed, I think this case is definitely not the Greenberg case. He was traveling so fast as to create a high probability that a motor vehicle accident would occur. That’s in this case. He was traveling so excessively [as] to qualify as a willful and wanton disregard of safety for others. That’s this case. To say that as the case law demonstrates reckless driving requires driving that not only grossly deviates from ordinary prudence but also creates a substantial risk that property damage or personal injury will follow. I think that’s this case. It is also necessary that the driver reflect a conscious disregard for the danger being created by the reckless driving. I think that’s this case. I think your client’s admission and the circumstances that are reflected in these pictures clearly demonstrate this is a case of reckless disregard.”
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.