264 Pa. Super. 515 - Commonwealth v. Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2021 · most notably 282 Pa. Super. 100 - Commonwealth v. Bidner (1980), Commonwealth v. Weiskerger (1989)
44 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. Starr · Commonwealth v. Strantz · Commonwealth v. Yobbagy · 187 Pa. Super. 206 - Commonwealth v. Horvath · 242 Pa. Super. 303 - Commonwealth v. Jones
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) General Rule—A public law enforcement official or a person acting in cooperation with such an official perpetrates an entrapment if for the purpose of obtaining evidence for the commission of an offense, he induces or encourages another person to engage in conduct constituting such offense by either: (1) Making knowingly false representations to induce the belief that such conduct is not prohibited; or (2) Employing methods of persuasion or inducement which creates a substantial risk that such an offense will be committed by persons other than those who are ready to commit it. (b) Burden of Proof—... [A] person prosecuted for an offense shall be acquitted if he proves by a preponderance of evidence that his conduct occurred in response to an entrapment.”
3 later decisions 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.