250 Pa. Super. 422 - Commonwealth v. Clawson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably Commonwealth v. Weiskerger (1989), 299 Pa. Super. 113 - Commonwealth v. Taylor (1982)
27 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 Sagansky v. United States · United States v. Watson · 196 Pa. Super. 97 - Commonwealth v. Conway · 234 Pa. Super. 52 - Commonwealth v. Mott · Commonwealth v. Klein
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) mak[es] knowingly false representations designed to induce the belief that such conduct is not prohibited; or (2) employ[s] methods of persuasion or inducement which create a substantial risk that such an offense will be committed by persons other than those who are ready to commit it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . whether the criminal design was created by the officer or whether the officer merely afforded an opportunity for the commission of a crime by the person already disposed to commit the 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.