253 Pa. Super. 467 - Cromley v. Gardner’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably 421 Pa. Super. 548 - Stidham v. Millvale Sportsmen's Club (1992), Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. v. Niziolek (1985)
26 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 Hurtt v. Stirone · McCay v. Philadelphia Electric Co. · Izzi v. Philadelphia Transportation Co. · Loughner v. Schmelzer · 215 Pa. Super. 439 - Boushell v. J. H. Beers, Inc.
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although the potential penalty for driving under the influence is significantly less severe than that for involuntary manslaughter, it is certainly substantial. Therefore, although appellee employed a practical strategy in pleading, insofar as he precluded the possibility of a more severe penalty, he was still risking considerable interests in his liberty and property. If appellee believed in his innocence and his ability to prove it, he would not likely have made such a plea. Believing that his guilty plea was clearly indicative of appellees guilt of driving under the influence, not a summary or minor offense, we find the plea admissible as an admission against interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““In so deciding [that judgments in criminal cases may be admissible to establish the facts in a subsequent civil case arising from the same incident], we recognize a valid existing distinction in cases involving the record of conviction of relatively minor matters such as traffic violations, lesser misdemeanors, and matters of like import. Especially in traffic violations, expediency and convenience, rather than guilt, often control the defendant’s ‘trial technique’ ”...”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he Hurtt court was not dealing with a conviction of a motor vehicle code violation. Therefore, it is understandable that no attempt was made to categorize vehicle code violations according to their degree of seriousness. It cannot be contended, however, that all code violations are of equal gravity.”
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.