290 Pa. Super. 182 - Commonwealth v. Barnhart’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently April 2000 · most notably 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor (1984), 381 Pa. Super. 606 - Commonwealth v. Hunter (1989)
69 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 Dilliplaine v. Lehigh Valley Trust Co. · Commonwealth v. Clair · Commonwealth v. Wable · Commonwealth v. Peterson · Commonwealth v. Strantz
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A motion for new trial on grounds that the verdict is contrary to the weight of the evidence concedes that there is sufficient evidence to sustain the verdict, but contends, nevertheless, that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence. Whether a new trial should be granted on grounds that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence is addressed to the sound discretion of the trial judge, and will not be reversed on appeal unless there has been an abuse of discretion, [citations omitted]. The test is not whether the court would have decided the case in the same way but whether the verdict is so contrary to the evidence as to make the award of a new trial imperative so that right may be given another opportunity to prevail, [citations omitted].””
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.