241 Pa. Super. 7 - Commonwealth v. Harris’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2013
16 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 In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Commonwealth v. Clair · Commonwealth v. Garvin · Commonwealth v. Fortune · Commonwealth v. TIRPAK
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“3. In Commonwealth v. Hill, 236 Pa.Super. 572 , 346 A.2d 314 (1975), our court affirmed a conviction for trafficking in narcotic drags under the Act of Sept. 26, 1961, P.L. 1664 § 4 (35 P.S. § 780-4(q)). In that case, although there was no evidence of an actual sale, and although the appellant had only fifteen half-spoons of heroin in his possession at the time of his arrest, our court felt that this amount, coupled with the other factors present, was sufficient for conviction. While Hill dealt with a violation under the old drug act, since repealed, the analogy between that case and the case at bar is sufficient for us to conclude that the amount involved is not necessarily crucial to establishing an inference of possession with intent to deliver, if the proper other facts are present. In the case at bar, the detective’s expert testimony supplied sufficient other facts to support the inference. (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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