Commonwealth v. Goodyear’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1992
17 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. Garrett · 223 Pa. Super. 60 - Commonwealth v. Lockhart · Commonwealth v. Yobbagy · Commonwealth v. EVANS · Commonwealth v. Neff
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellants attempt to analogize the instant case to Commonwealth v. Lambert, 226 Pa.Super. 41 , 313 A.2d 300 (1973) in which this Court held that if a defendant is charged in the indictment with corrupting the morals by a specific act, the failure of the Commonwealth to prove the corrupting act precludes conviction on the corrupting charge. In Lambert , the appellant was indicted for corrupting the morals by furnishing dangerous drugs, but the Commonwealth was unable to prove that the pills appellant gave the minor were dangerous drugs. The Commonwealth’s proof, therefore, did not ‘measure up to the charge made in the indictment.’ ... In the present case, appellants were indicted for corrupting the morals of William Hamill generally and were not charged with corruption by furnishing marijuana.”
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.