231 Pa. Super. 481 - Commonwealth v. Stephens’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently November 1994 · most notably 309 Pa. Super. 415 - Commonwealth v. Lamb (1983), 327 Pa. Super. 179 - Commonwealth v. Taraschi (1984)
37 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 United States v. Falcone · Direct Sales Co. v. United States · Commonwealth v. Eiland · Commonwealth v. Fortune · Commonwealth v. Davis
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Appellant did not induce Cafurello[—the alleged co-conspirator], to sell marijuana, nor did he aid or assist him at the time of the sale. There was also no showing that appellant had received any money from Cafurello. In short, the only thing that was shown was that appellant stood mute and unresponsive after overhearing the conversation between the [police officer] and Cafurello. That evidence, while supporting an inference of knowledge, cannot support the further inference of agreement ... . ” (Emphasis added) Id., 231 Pa.Superior Ct. at 489, 331 A.2d at 723 .”
2 later decisions 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.