322 Pa. Super. 504 - Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently July 2008
4 federal appellate · 10 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 Cogdell v. United States · Commonwealth v. Ingram · Commonwealth v. Starr · Commonwealth v. Shaffer · Commonwealth v. Demmitt
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A reviewing court is bound by the lower court’s determination of issues of credibility, unless said determination is a manifest error. Leibowitz v. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp., 224 Pa.Super. 418 , 307 A.2d 449 (1973). Issues of credibility are resolved through personal observation; therefore, absent clear and manifest error, a lower court’s assessment of witnesses’ integrity is not properly reversible on appeal. Shawcreaw v. Shawcreaw, 248 Pa.Super. 223 , 375 A.2d 68 (1977); Re Estate of Duncan, 426 Pa. 283 , 232 A.2d 717 (1967).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We are satisfied that the court's explanation of the competency test and its seeking from counsel both his opinion and the opinions of licensed psychiatrists who had evaluated [Smith] satisfied the necessity of determining [Smith's] competence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Freeman“Mr. Smith, it seems to me that you are pretty upset at this point and I'm a little reluctant to proceed further with this guilty plea, in light of your present condition.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Freeman
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.