Commonwealth v. Hoke’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
1 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2005
1 district · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Kloiber · Commonwealth v. Bolish · Commonwealth v. Chickerella
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether one is driving too fast for conditions [in violation of 75 P.S. § 1002(a)] is a relative matter, dependent not on any specific speed but on all the existing circumstances, which circumstances are for the fact-finder to consider in determining whether or not defendant is guilty as charged. There is no question but that in this case the testimony presented before the Justice of the Peace clearly supported the conclusion reached by him that indeed defendant was driving too fast for conditions, though there was no evidence of his specific speed.”
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.