2007 Pa. Super. 404 - Commonwealth v. Patterson’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently July 2023
1 federal appellate · 21 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 Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing Products, Inc. · Rodriguez v. West · Commonwealth v. Yarris · Starr v. Veneziano · Commonwealth v. Galloway
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“whether the record supports the trial court’s factual findings and whether the legal conclusions drawn therefrom are free from error. Our scope of review is limited; we may consider only the evidence of the prosecution and so much of the evidence for the defense as remains uncontradicted when read in the context of the record as a whole. Where the record supports the findings of the suppression court, we are bound by those facts and may reverse only if the court erred in reaching its legal conclusions based upon the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[w]hen evaluating the credibility and weight of the evidence, the fact finder is free to believe all, part or none of the evidence.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`. . . preclude every possibility of innocence, and the fact finder is free to resolve any doubts regarding a defendant's guilt.'”
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.