287 Pa. Super. 13 - Commonwealth v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
3
states following
January 1996
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 751
Relies on United States v. Bailey · 265 Pa. Super. 194 - Commonwealth v. Stanley · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bryant v. Hendrick · State v. Cross · JACKSON v. Hendrick
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a prisoner [is] confronted with a choice between accompanying an escaping cell mate, or being seriously injured if he [chooses] to remain behind____ In such a case, the usual sources of aid [ie., resort to prison officials or to the courts via habeas corpus or the Federal Civil Rights Act] would not be immediately available, and confronted with the choice between serious injury or escape, the defendant would properly be excused for choosing the latter course of action.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It is a defense that the actor engaged in the conduct charged to constitute an offense because he was coerced to do so by the use of, or a threat to use unlawful force against his person or the person of another, which a person of reasonable firmness in his situation would have been unable to resist. 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 309(a).”
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.