312 Pa. Super. 53 - Commonwealth v. Minnis’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 382 Pa. Super. 116 - Commonwealth v. Pankraz (1989), 362 Pa. Super. 580 - Commonwealth v. Anneski (1987)
27 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 United States v. Wade · Commonwealth v. Kloiber · Russell v. United States · Commonwealth v. Harper · Commonwealth v. Roscioli
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The test of sufficiency of the evidence is whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict winner, and drawing all reasonable inferences favorable to it, there is sufficient evidence to find every element of the crime and the identity of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt____ The entire record with all evidence actually received must be considered, whether or not the lower court’s rulings thereon were correct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any indefiniteness and uncertainty in the identification testimony goes to its weight.”
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.