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← 319 PASUPER 580 - Commonwealth v. Carlitz

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

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  1. “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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