265 Pa. Super. 458 - Commonwealth v. McSween’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2022
5 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. Turner · Commonwealth v. Shapiro · 244 Pa. Super. 315 - Commonwealth v. Bonn · Commonwealth v. Ruger
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This statutory presumption is an evidentiary device which may be available to assist the Commonwealth in proving an element of the offense beyond a reasonable doubt. Commonwealth v. Turner, 456 Pa. 116 , 317 A.2d 298 (1974). It arises only when the prosecution establishes the existence of facts upon which the presumption is based. Commonwealth v. Bonn, 244 Pa.Super. 315 , 368 A.2d 738 (1976). The fact upon which the instant presumption is based is concealment of the unpurchased merchandise. Commonwealth v. McSween, 265 Pa.Superior 458, 460-61, 402 A.2d 528 (1979).”
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.