270 Pa. Super. 47 - Commonwealth v. Sample’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 1993
14 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. Fox · Commonwealth v. Tate · Commonwealth v. Lipscomb · Commonwealth v. Maloney · Commonwealth v. Harvell
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant challenges, inter alia, the sufficiency of the evidence to support the verdicts. The test to be employed in evaluating the sufficiency of the evidence in a criminal case is well-settled. We must view the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict winner, accept as true all the evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom upon which, if believed, the jury could properly have based its verdict, and determine whether such evidence and reasonable inferences are sufficient in law to prove beyond a reasonable doubt all elements of the crime charged. Commonwealth v. Tate, 485 Pa. 180 , 401 A.2d 353 (1979).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““A. After the doctors had got finished working on him, I asked him for his name, his age, his residence, what happened to him, what location he was taken from. “Q. Why were you seeking that information, Detective? “A. For the reason that there was another male that had been brought in, deceased, from Chadwick and Dickinson Streets, also in the South Philadelphia area, and to find out whether this crime was related. “Q. And did you get any response from Mr. Sample? “A. I got a response to all questions except the question of how he got shot.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The question is no longer what the verdict is, the question is how long are you as twelve people, going to tolerate this type of activity. . . . Come back, in a clear voice and say to this community that you no longer will stand for this activity . . . . ””
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.