2011 Pa. Super. 65 - Commonwealth v. Andre’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A]t the time of the commission of the offense, the actor was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if the actor did know the quality of the act, that he did not know that what he was doing was wrong.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robinson v. Allstate Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co.

2. “In a criminal case, under the circumstances provided by law, the Commonwealth may take an appeal as of right from an order that does not end the entire case where the Commonwealth certifies in the notice of appeal that the order will terminate or substantially handicap the prosecution.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Com. v. Landis

3. “override the element of mens rea " because an individual may have the necessary mens rea when he "knows what he ... is doing, but does not know that it is wrong”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Robinson v. Allstate Prop. & Cas. Ins. Co.