266 Pa. Super. 11 - Commonwealth v. Grassmyer’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2003
22 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. Graves · Commonwealth v. Black · Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Strader · 263 Pa. Super. 452 - Commonwealth v. Frank
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“AGGRAVATED ASSAULT — ATTEMPTED SERIOUS BODILY INJURY The defendant has been charged with the crime of aggravated assault. In order to find the defendant guilty of aggravated assault you must find that each of the elements of the crime has been established beyond a reasonable doubt. There are two elements: 1. That the defendant attempted to cause serious bodily injury to [the victim]. In order to find that the defendant attempted to do this, you must find that he engaged in conduct which constituted a substantial step toward causing serious bodily injury to [the victim]. 2. That the defendant’s conduct in this regard was intentional, or in other words that it was his conscious object or purpose to cause such serious bodily injury. If, after considering all of the evidence, you find that the Commonwealth has established each of these elements beyond a reasonable doubt, then you should find the defendant guilty of aggravated assault. Other wise you must find the defendant not guilty of aggravated assault.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Under Section 2702(a)(1), one is guilty of aggravated assault if he either attempts to cause serious bodily harm, or if he causes such injury in fact intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly. The attempt to cause serious bodily injury, is, like all criminal attempts, a specific intent crime. 18 Pa.C.S. § 908(a); Mt. Lebanon Motors, Inc. v. Chrysler Corp., 283 F.Supp. 453, 462 (W.D.Pa.1968). See generally Commonwealth v. Graves, 461 Pa. 118 , 334 A.2d 661 (1975). However, because a successful infliction of serious bodily injury, as in the instant case, is criminal if recklessly inflicted, specific intent is not required. See 18 Pa.C.S. § 302(b)(3) (defining recklessness not as intent to achieve particular result but as conscious disregard of substantial and unjustifiable risk).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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