2013 Pa. Super. 303 - Commonwealth v. Watley’s Empirical Analysis
2013
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 268 Pa. Super. 488 - Commonwealth v. Sojourner · 268 Pa. Super. 472 - Commonwealth v. Sojourner · 296 Pa. Super. 43 - Commonwealth v. Bagley · 435 Pa. Super. 410 - Commonwealth v. Jackson · 232 Pa. Super. 463 - Commonwealth v. Brown
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“we must determine whether the evidence admitted at trial, and all reasonable inferences drawn therefrom, when viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict winner, support the conviction beyond a reasonable doubt. ... Where there is sufficient evidence to enable the trier of fact to find every element of the crime has been established beyond a reasonable doubt, the sufficiency of the evidence claim must fail. Of course, the evidence established at trial need not preclude every possibility of innocence and the fact-finder is free to believe all, part or none of the evidence presented.”
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.