Commonwealth v. Carlitz’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
June 2005
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Pettus · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · 315 Pa. Super. 256 - Commonwealth v. Holmes
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“weight” of the evidence. A claim that the defendant is entitled to a new trial on such a basis is addressed to the discretion of the trial judge. The test is whether the verdict is so contrary to the evidence[] so as to shock the conscience, such as to make the award of a new trial imperative, so that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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