322 Pa. Super. 249 - Commonwealth v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
61 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 61 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Simmons (1995), Commonwealth v. Counterman (1998)
61 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 Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Streeter v. United States · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Gibson v. United States
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 61 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The trial judge may comment on evidence as long as the jury is left free to act on its own view of the evidence. Commonwealth v. Austin, 274 Pa.Super. 1 , 417 A.2d 1220 (1980); Commonwealth v. Dougherty, 259 Pa.Super. 88 , 393 A.2d 730 (1978). It is well settled that the trial court’s instructions to the jury must be read as a whole, and that error cannot be predicated on isolated excerpts from the charge. Commonwealth v. Irwin, 494 Pa. 277 , 431 A.2d 257 (1981); Commonwealth v. Todaro, 301 Pa.Super. 1 , 446 A.2d 1305 (1982).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[b]ecause the trial judge who makes the competency ruling has a much superior opportunity to assess the competency of the child witness, an appellate court should virtually never reverse the ruling, the better practice being to accept the testimony on its face and leave the matter of credibility to the fact finder.”
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.