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← 2011 Pa. Super. 63 - Commonwealth v. Bennett

2011 Pa. Super. 63 - Commonwealth v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Bennett · Commonwealth v. Wayne · Commonwealth v. Cox · Commonwealth v. Huffman · Commonwealth v. Montalvo

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

  1. “an accomplice and/or a conspirator in [a] robbery ... was thereby equally responsible with the shooter for first-degree murder, even without proof that [the defendant] himself had the specific intent to kill.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “did not tell the jurors that they needed to find Bennett possessed the specific intent to kill before they could convict him of first-degree murder.”
    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.