2007 Pa. Super. 289 - Commonwealth v. Patrick’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently January 2025
10 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. Alexander · Workmen's Compensation Appeal Board v. Williams · 2001 Pa. Super. 194 - Commonwealth v. Marti · Commonwealth v. O'Hanlon · 310 Pa. Super. 105 - Commonwealth v. Laing
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our scope of review is limited to deciding whether a prima facie case was established.... The Commonwealth must show sufficient probable cause that the defendant committed the offense, and the evidence should be such that if presented at trial, and accepted as true, the judge would be warranted in allowing the case to go to the jury. When deciding whether a prima facie ease was established, we must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, and we are to consider all reasonable inferences based on that evidence which could support a guilty verdict. The standard ... does not require that the Commonwealth prove the [defendant’s] guilt- beyond a reasonable doubt at this stage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another , or causes such injury intentionally, knowingly or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“demonstrate[d] [Patrick] inflicted an assault on the victim with reckless indifference under circumstances which virtually assured serious bodily injury”
2 later decisions 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.