285 Pa. Super. 389 - Commonwealth v. Krasner’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably 309 Pa. Super. 81 - Baker v. Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. (1982), State v. Johnson (1982)
36 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 Irvin v. Dowd · Murphy v. Florida · Commonwealth v. Blair · PepsiCo, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission · Commonwealth v. Kichline
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The suggestion that any reference to a defendant’s photograph is so prejudicial that an inflexible rule of reversal must apply is explicitly rejected. We hold that after the reference to a photograph the controlling question is whether or not a juror could reasonably infer from the facts presented that the accused had engaged in prior criminal activity. A mere passing reference to photographs from which a reasonable inference of prior criminal activity cannot properly be drawn does not invalidate the proceedings since there has been no prejudice as a result of the reference____”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the challenged testimony did not link appellant to any specific prior criminal activity. The photographs mentioned by the two witnesses were never displayed, marked, admitted or otherwise referred to at trial, nor were they characterized as “mug shots” or as “photographs from a police file.” See Commonwealth v. Smith, 454 Pa. 515 , 314 A.2d 224 (1973). “In other words, aside from the fact that a police detective displayed the photograph, there was nothing else linking it to the police. It is highly unlikely that a juror would conclude from this alone that [appellant] had engaged in criminal conduct.” Commonwealth v. Carlos, 462 Pa. at 266 , 341 A.2d at 73 . In such circumstances, “there was nothing that should reasonably suggest to a jury that the photographs were obtained by police officials as a result of the defendant’s prior criminal activity.” Commonwealth v. Allen, 448 Pa. at 182 , 292 A.2d at 376 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“[i]n order to avail himself of the right to object to improper remarks or a misstatement of fact or an unfair comment, counsel must object and move for [a mistrial], whereupon, the court should direct the stenographer to place upon the record the court’s understanding of the remarks so that error may properly be assigned if the motion ... is denied.... If the court refuses to direct the stenographer to place upon the record remarks to which objection has been made, the opposing counsel may place the remarks on the record by affidavit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.