235 Pa. Super. 601 - Commonwealth v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently July 2013
22 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. Roscioli · Commonwealth v. Rife · Commonwealth v. Wilson · Commonwealth v. McFadden · Commonwealth v. Leach
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) General rule. — A person is guilty of an offense if it is committed by his own conduct or by the conduct of another person for which he is legally accountable, or both. “(b) Conduct of another. — A person is legally accountable for the conduct of another person when: “(3) he is an accomplice of such other person in the commission of the offense. “(c) Accomplice defined. — A person is an accomplice of another person in the commission of an offense if: “(1) with the intent of promoting or facilitating the commission of the offense, he: s¡* $ $ * 'Is H4 s** “(ii) aids or agrees or attempts to aid such other person in planning or committing it . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he driver of a `get away' car can be found guilty. . . if it is reasonable to infer that he was aware of the actual perpetrator's intention. His agreement to effectuate the escape aids the perpetrator in the planning and commission of the actual crime.”
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.