315 Pa. Super. 256 - Commonwealth v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor (1984), 337 Pa. Super. 548 - Commonwealth v. Black (1985)
145 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 Linkletter v. Walker · Commonwealth v. Blair · Commonwealth v. Gravely · Commonwealth v. Waters · Commonwealth v. Cargo
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... effective sixty days from today, a post-verdict motion, either that “the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict,” or that “the verdict was against the weight of the evidence,” will preserve no issue for appellate review unless the motion goes on to specify in what respect the evidence was insu f ficient, or why the verdict was against the weight of the evidence.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Appellant’s boiler plate post-verdict motions, reproduced in the first paragraph of this opinion, alleged only that the verdict was contrary to the evidence, the weight of the evidence, and the law____ However, in his brief to this court appellant’s argument is that the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict____ We will treat the allegation in appellant’s post-verdict motions that the verdict was “contrary to the evidence” as a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, and hold that that challenge has not been waived. However, we point out that just such complications as these have contributed to the frustration of the appellate courts of this State in dealing with boiler plate post-verdict motions, and to the waiver decisions detailed earlier in this opinion.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Post-Verdict Motions (a) Within ten (10) days after a finding of guilt, the defendant shall have the right to file written motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment. Only those grounds may be considered which were raised in pre-trial proceedings or at trial, unless the trial judge, upon cause shown, allows otherwise. Argument, a hearing, or both shall be scheduled and heard promptly after such motions are filed, and only those issues raised and the grounds relied upon in the motions that are stated specifically and with particularity may be argued or heard....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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