264 Pa. Super. 223 - Commonwealth v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stewart (1981), 272 Pa. Super. 149 - Commonwealth v. Dorman (1979)
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 Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Bolden · Russell v. Douthitt
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.
“... Appellant’s attempts to mislead the police occurred within one-half hour of the alleged offenses, and while he was still in the company of his accomplices making their “getaway”. And, finally, appellant’s false statements were relevant evidence against him in his trial for the principal offenses; his actions in misleading the police reflected a guilty state of mind. One of the more important considerations in determining whether criminal offenses may and should be joined for trial is whether proof of one offense is relevant to proving the other.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`an offense is a necessary step in the accomplishment of a given criminal objective . . . [or where] the commission of an additional offense . . . result[s] from the attempt to secure the benefit of a previous offense or to conceal its commission.. . .'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Although a prosecution is for a violation of a different provision of the statutes than a former prosecution or is based on different facts, it is barred by such former prosecution under the following circumstances: (1) The former prosecution resulted in an acquittal or a conviction ... and the subsequent prosecution is for: (ii) any offense based on the same conduct or arising from the same criminal episode, if such offense was known to the appropriate prosecuting officer at the time of commencement of the first trial and was within the jurisdiction of a single court unless the court ordered a separate trial of the charge of such offense.”
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.