2015 Pa. Super. 138 - Commonwealth v. Tyson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

30 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[a]dmission of evidence is within the sound discretion of the trial court and will be reversed only upon a showing that the trial court clearly abused its discretion. An abuse of discretion is not merely an error of judgment, but is rather the overriding or misapplication of the law, or the exercise of judgment that is manifestly unreasonable, or the result of bias, prejudice, ill-will or partiality, as shown by the evidence of record.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Radecki · Tong-Summerford, A. v. Abington Mem. Hosp.

2. “[t]he court may exclude relevant evidence if its probative value is outweighed by a danger of one or more of the following: unfair prejudice, confusing the issues, misleading the jury, undue delay, wasting time, or needlessly presenting cumulative evidence.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Radecki · Commonwealth v. McCarthy

3. “(b) Crimes, Wrongs or Other Acts. (1) Prohibited Uses. Evidence of a crime, wrong, or other act is not admissible to prove a person’s character in order to show that on a particular occasion the person acted in accordance with the character.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2016 Pa. Super. 247 - Commonwealth v. Richard · 2017 Pa. Super. 118 - Commonwealth v. McGriff