295 Pa. Super. 192 - Commonwealth v. Minoske’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
35
cited by 35 later decisions
2
states following
November 2008
most recently cited
35 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Aguilar v. Texas · Commonwealth v. Frye · Commonwealth v. Cohen · Commonwealth v. D'ANGELO · Commonwealth v. Chenet
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The test of sufficiency of the evidence — irrespective of whether it is direct or circumstantial, or both — is whether, accepting as true all the evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom, upon which if believed the [trier of fact] could properly have based [the] verdict, it is sufficient in law to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the crime or crimes of which he has been convicted.” Commonwealth v. Minoske, 295 Pa.Super. 192, 198 , 441 A.2d 414, 417 (1982) quoting Commonwealth v. Frye, 433 Pa. 473, 481 , 252 A.2d 580, 584 (1969). Accord Commonwealth v. Giles, 500 Pa. 413 , [415], 456 A.2d 1356, 1357 (1983); Commonwealth v. Wilcox, [310] Pa.Super. [331], [333], 456 A.2d 637, 639 (1983). In reviewing the evidence, we must consider it in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, which won the verdict in the trial court. Commonwealth v. Durrant, [501] Pa. [147], [149], 460 A.2d 732, 733 (1983); Commonwealth v. Bachert, 499 Pa. 398, 402-03 , 453 A.2d 931, 933 (1982); Commonwealth v. Kennedy, 499 Pa. 389, 392-93 , 453 A.2d 927, 928 (1982).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`accepting as true all the evidence and all reasonable inferences therefrom, upon which if believed the [fact finder] could properly have based its verdict, it is sufficient in law to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty of the crime or crimes of which he has been convicted.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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