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2016 Pa. Super. 291 - Commonwealth v. Diaz’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
December 2025
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1951 (Hobbs Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 2113 · 18 U.S.C. § 924

Relies on Apprendi v. New Jersey · Alleyne v. United States · 2014 Pa. Super. 178 - Commonwealth v. Newman · Commonwealth v. Shaw · Commonwealth v. Martin

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

  1. “[b]ecause the evidence supports the finding that the victim was intermittently unconscious throughout the assault and was at all relevant times in such impaired physical and mental condition so as to be unable to knowingly consent ... [t]hat intercourse ... is sufficient to constitute rape of an unconscious individual”
    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.