302 Pa. Super. 226 - Commonwealth v. McGuire’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 2010
13 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. Commander · Commonwealth v. Katchmer · Commonwealth v. Russell · Commonwealth v. Roman · Commonwealth v. Gaddy
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The only purpose of this question ... was to prejudice appellant by implanting in the minds of the jurors that appellant had been drinking on the day of the alleged offense ... This was clearly erroneous ... The Commonwealth ... improperly sought to strengthen the impact of its evidence by collateral and irrelevant matters....”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[Ejvidence of drinking is admissible only because it lays a foundation for an opinion of the intoxication of the witness. Intoxication, which numbs the faculties and thus affects the witness’ ability to observe and recollect, is the evidence necessary to impeach a witness’ credibility.”
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.