300 Pa. Super. 174 - Commonwealth v. Kaster’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2004
17 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. Bighum · Machibroda v. United States · Commonwealth v. Kravitz · Commonwealth v. Roots · Commonwealth v. Littlejohn
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence of a defendant's actions both before and after a crime may be admissible to show motive and malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Finch“against the evidence,” and “against the weight of the evidence.”
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.