2011 Pa. Super. 122 - Commonwealth v. Crawford’s Empirical Analysis

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12 state decisions

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

1. “conduct that represents a wickedness of disposition, hardness of heart, cruelty, recklessness of consequences, and a mind regardless of social duty.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2017 Pa. Super. 141 - Commonwealth v. Rush · Commonwealth v. Padilla-Vargas

2. “The culpability requirement of Section 5511 is wantonness or cruelty. Commonwealth v. Tomey, 884 A.2d 291, 294 (Pa.Super.2005), appeal denied, 588 Pa. 781, 906 A.2d 542 (2006). The words ‘wanton’ and ‘cruel’ are to be construed according to their common and approved usage. Id. at 295. In Tomey , this court approved of the following definition of “wanton”: Wanton misconduct means that the actor has intentionally done an act- of an unreasonable character, in disregard to a risk known to him or so obvious that he must be taken to have been aware of it and so great as to make it highly probable that harm would follow. It usually is accompanied by a conscious indifference to the consequences. Id. ‘Cruel,’ in its common usage, is defined as ‘disposed to inflict pain or suffering,’ ‘devoid of humane feelings,’ ‘causing or conducive to injury, grief, or pain,’ and ‘unrelieved by . leniency.’ Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2015 Pa. Super. 121 - Commonwealth v. Shickora

3. “he is aware that it is practically certain that his conduct will cause such a result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Padilla-Vargas