303 Pa. Super. 245 - Commonwealth v. McCabe’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
2
states following
April 1994
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Frye v. United States · Red Ball Motor Freight, Inc. v. Shannon · Commonwealth v. Bosurgi · Commissioner of Internal Revenue v. Portland Cement Company of Utah · State v. Hurd
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear that the victim was able to positively identify both of her assailants prior to the hypnotic session. Therefore, with respect to the victim’s ability to identify her two assailants, the hypnotic session did not, in fact, refresh her memory and the dangers of unreliable suggestion, fantasy and confabulation are not at issue. With respect to what happened to the victim after she was raped, during the period in which she lapsed in and out of consciousness, our review of the entire trial transcript, suppression hearing transcript and transcript of the hypnotic session itself confirms that the prosecution deliberately did not attempt to utilize any testimony of the victim which conceivably surfaced for the first time as a result of the hypnotic session____ Therefore, the victim’s testimony was not rendered incompetent by the hypnotic session due to the fact that she did have prior recollection.”
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.