295 Pa. Super. 242 - Commonwealth v. Von Aczel’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably 315 Pa. Super. 281 - Commonwealth v. Ford (1983), 343 Pa. Super. 118 - Commonwealth v. Evans (1985)
37 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 Commonwealth v. Dancer · Commonwealth v. Walker · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Via · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A person may not be convicted of more than one offense defined by this chapter for conduct designed to commit or to culminate in the commission of the same crime.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“`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
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.