307 Pa. Super. 396 - Commonwealth v. Womack’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably 425 Pa. Super. 24 - Commonwealth v. Bowser (1993), 396 Pa. Super. 605 - Commonwealth v. Fuller (1990)
35 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 Chimel v. California · Rakas v. Illinois · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Dancer
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 court may allow an information to be amended when there is a defect in form, the description of the offense, the description of any person or property, or the date charged, provided the information as amended does not charge an additional or different offense. Upon amendment the court may grant such postponement of trial or other relief as is necessary in the interests of justice.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Intoxication is a matter of common knowledge, and opinions given by lay people are permissible on the issue. Commonwealth v. Reynolds, 256 Pa.Super. 259 , 389 A.2d 1113 (1978). However, the lay witness must have sufficient facts on which to base his opinion before he can express an opinion on another’s intoxication. Commonwealth v. Hughes, 480 Pa. 811 , 389 A.2d 1081 (1978). See also Commonwealth v. Summers, 269 Pa.Super. 437 , 410 A.2d 336 (1979) (court concludes witness’ observations of the way the person looked and the way he was walking provided sufficient factual basis for witness to conclude a person was intoxicated). The court also looks to the witness’ personal knowledge and observation. Commonwealth v. Davenport, 255 Pa.Super. 131 , 386 A.2d 543 (1978).”
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.