289 Pa. Super. 126 - Commonwealth v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Doctor v. Walters (1996), 314 Pa. Super. 256 - Commonwealth v. Potts (1983)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 SMALICH v. Westfall · Commonwealth v. Roscioli · Selma and Meridian Railroad Company v. Louisiana National Bank of New Orleans · Commonwealth v. DiFrancesco · Commonwealth v. Henderson
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he rationale behind dismissal of an appeal while a convicted defendant is a fugitive from justice rests upon the inherent discretion of any court to refuse to hear the claim of a litigant who, by escaping, has placed himself beyond the jurisdiction and control of the court, and hence, might not be responsive to the judgment of the court.” In Interest of Dixon, 282 Pa.Super. 189, 190 , 422 A.2d 892, 893 (1980) (quoting Commonwealth v. Galloway, 460 Pa. 309 , 333 A.2d 741 (1975)) (supporting citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘ “... it is not necessary that each piece of evidence be linked to the [defendant] beyond a reasonable doubt. It is only necessary that each piece of evidence include the [defendant] in the group who could be linked while excluding others, and that the combination of evidence link the [defendant] to the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.” ’ ” (Citation omitted) Id., 289 Pa.Superior at 136, 432 A.2d at 1089 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[T]he appellant's conduct; the appellant's relationship to the victim; the elapsed time between the appellant's possession and the theft; the situs of the theft and the situs of the possession; the kind of property; the quantity of the property; and the identifying characteristics of the property." (Citations omitted) Id.”
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.