311 Pa. Super. 190 - Commonwealth v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2021
2 federal appellate · 12 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. McNeal · 166 Pa. Super. 625 - Commonwealth v. Bowes · 297 Pa. Super. 498 - Commonwealth v. Seeley · Commonwealth v. Watson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Commonwealth v. Bowes, 166 Pa.Super. 625 , 74 A.2d 795 (1950). . . is the only Pennsylvania appellate case specifically delineating what penetration means in this context. That case stated that entrance in the labia is sufficient:”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person: (1) by forcible compulsion; (2) by a threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution; (3) who is unconscious; (4) who is so mentally deranged or deficient that such person is incapable of consent; or (5) who is less than 16 years of age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“penetration of the vagina, in essence the farther reaches of the female genitalia, is not necessary to find penetration under Section 3101.”
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.