2006 Pa. Super. 307 - Commonwealth v. Schoff’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 2025
16 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 Sattazahn v. Pennsylvania · In Re Nomination Petition of Wesley · Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Van Youngman · Broussard v. Zoning Board of Adjustment of City of Pittsburgh · Commonwealth v. Wallace
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Records of a Regularly Conducted Activity. A record (which includes a memorandum, report, or data compilation in any form) of an act, event or condition if, (A) the record was made at or near the time by — or from information transmitted by — someone with knowledge; (B) the record was kept in the course of a regularly conducted activity of a “business”, which term includes business, institution, association, profession, occupation, and calling of every kind, whether or not conducted for profit; (C) making the record was a regular practice of that activity; (D) all these conditions are shown by the testimony of the custodian or another qualified witness, or by a certification that complies with Rule 902(11) or (12) or with a statute permitting certification; and (E)neither the source of information nor other circumstances indicate a lack of trustworthiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The mens rea required for first-degree murder, specific intent to kill, may be established solely from circumstantial evidence.”
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.