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← 2007 Pa. Super. 382 - Commonwealth v. Davis

2007 Pa. Super. 382 - Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
January 2018
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Delbridge · HRI, Inc. v. Patriot Services, Inc. · Mazur v. Washington County Redevelopment Authority · Commonwealth v. Delbridge · 2006 Pa. Super. 84 - Commonwealth v. Judd

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[There are] various factors that cast doubt on the veracity of child witnesses interviewed by police, social service workers and other adults: they are highly suggestible, inclined to repeat [w]hat they have been told, have a limited capacity for accurate memory, and often answer questions in the way they believe most pleases the adult interrogator.”
    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.