312 Pa. Super. 85 - Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently February 2003
18 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. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Roux · Commonwealth v. New · Commonwealth v. Yobbagy · 265 Pa. Super. 494 - Commonwealth v. Anderson
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The facts and circumstances must be considered together with all reasonable inferences arising from them. Commonwealth v. Carter, suprai 272 Pa. Super. 411 , 416 A.2d 523 (1979)]; Commonwealth v. Anderson, 265 Pa. Superior Ct. 494 , 402 A.2d 546 (1979). However, “[w]hen two equally reasonable and mutually inconsistent inferences can be drawn from the same set of circumstances, the jury may not be permitted to guess which inference it will adopt.” Commonwealth v. Hubbard, 472 Pa. 259, 270 , 372 A.2d 687, 692 (1977). See Commonwealth v. Woong Knee New, 354 Pa. 188 , 47 A.2d 450 (1946). “When a party on whom the burden of proof rests in either a criminal or a civil case, offers evidence consistent with two opposing propositions, he proves neither.” Commonwealth v. Anderson, supra 265 Pa.Super. at 500 , 402 A.2d at 548 . Mere suspicion and conjecture do not suffice to sustain a conviction.”
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.