323 Pa. Super. 46 - Commonwealth v. Laurenson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2010
18 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 v. Kichline · Commonwealth v. Gravely · Commonwealth v. Morris · Commonwealth v. Ulatoski · Commonwealth v. Slaughter
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The offenses were committed approximately three months apart in homes approximately five blocks apart; both were committed between approximately 6:30 and 7:00 a.m.; both were committed in the victim’s home; in both cases a screen was slit and entry made or attempted through a window: in both cases the victim was threatened verbally and with a knife; in both cases the assailant covered the victim’s face; both victims were forced to engage in oral sex; in both cases the assailant spoke in a strange voice that was difficult to understand; and the boot prints found in both cases were similar. Given the variety of circumstances in which rape is committed, the similarities in these two cases make it very unlikely that the rapes were committed by different persons. Id. at 125.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) the manner in which the pretrial identification was conducted; (2) the witness’ prior opportunity to observe the alleged criminal act; (3) the existence of any discrepancies between the defendant’s actual description and any description given by the witness before the [out-of-court] identification; (4) any previous identification by the witness or some other person; (5) any previous identification of the defendant himself; (6) failure to identify the defendant on a prior occasion; and (7) the lapse of time between the alleged act and the out-of-court identification.”
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.