280 Pa. Super. 303 - Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
March 2000
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Story · Commonwealth v. Peterson · Commonwealth v. Harper · Commonwealth v. Fortune · Commonwealth v. Roman
Most-quoted passages
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“(1) motive; (2) intent; (3) absence of mistake or accident; (4) a common scheme plan, or design embracing the commission of two or more crimes so related to each other that proof of one tends to prove the others; or (5) the identity of the person charged with the crime on trial. In other words, evidence of a prior criminal act is admissible where there is a logical connection between the prior criminal act and the crime currently on trial that proof of one naturally tends to show that the accused is the person who committed the other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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