268 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Starkes’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently December 2013
21 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. Kloiber · Commonwealth v. Young · 223 Pa. Super. 60 - Commonwealth v. Lockhart · Commonwealth v. Kluska · Commonwealth v. Donough
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of burglary if he enters a building or occupied structure, or separately secured or occupied portion thereof, with intent to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Regarded in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, the evidence shows that [the victim] “let in” the first man because she recognized him as her boyfriend’s acquaintance and because it was cold outside. When the first man acknowledged that [the defendant] and another man were with him, [the victim] opened her door and let them in too. There is no evidence to suggest that any of the three robbers asked to enter in order to visit or to wait for Butch, misrepresented their identity, stated, much less misstated their purpose, or otherwise deceived [the victim] into allowing them to enter. The only conclusion supportable by the evidence is that [the victim] permitted the men to enter because she recognized one man and wished to be hospitable to him and those with him. No evidence suggested that any of the robbers inveigled or deceived [the victim]. We hold, therefore, that the evidence was insufficient to prove [the defendant’s] unlicensed or unprivileged entry.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“License means “1: permission to act ... 3b: authority or permission of one having no possessory rights in land to do something on the land which would otherwise be unlawful or a trespass ... privilege means “la: a right or immunity as a peculiar benefit, advantage or favor; special enjoyment of a good or exemption from an evil or burden; a peculiar or personal advantage or right esp. when enjoyed in derogation of common right: PREROGATIVE.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.