270 Pa. Super. 501 - Commonwealth v. Hess’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently May 2007 · most notably 299 Pa. Super. 463 - Habecker v. Nationwide Insurance (1982), 344 Pa. Super. 78 - Tyler v. King (1985)
50 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 Braunfeld v. Gibbons · Commonwealth v. Clair · Commonwealth v. Harris · Commonwealth v. Banks · State v. Briley
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is axiomatic that no claimant of a testimonial privilege can be the final arbiter of his own claim ... Moreover, were the interspousal testimonial competency provided for in 19 P.S. § 683 to be contingent upon the discretion of the victimized spouse, it would materially frustrate the legislative intent of facilitating the prosecution of criminal behavior occurring in a domestic setting frequently devoid of witnesses other than the spouses themselves.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Neither voluntary intoxication nor voluntary drugged condition is a defense to a criminal charge, nor may evidence of such conditions be introduced to negative the element of intent of the offense....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“we are satisfied that a thirty minute period is not so extreme as to preclude admission of ... declarations under the excited utterance exception.”
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.