325 Pa. Super. 465 - Commonwealth v. Stewart’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2010
22 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 Ashe v. Swenson · Illinois v. Vitale · Robinson v. Neil · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Bolden
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In theory, therefore, it may be said that because both offenses were continuing, they occupied the same time frame at the moment when police searched appellant’s automobile and found not only stolen property but controlled substances as well. In actuality, however, the temporal relationship between the two offenses is less than clear. The crime of theft by receiving stolen motor oil and mechanic’s tools had its genesis in an unlawful taking which occurred during the early evening of August 16, 1980. There is no basis in the evidence here presented for finding that appellant’s possession of controlled substances commenced at the time of the theft or at the time when appellant came into possession of the stolen property.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) to protect a person accused of crimes from governmental harassment of being forced to undergo successive trial for offenses stemming from the same criminal episode; and (2) as a matter of judicial administration and economy, to assure finality without unduly overburdening the judicial process by repetitious litigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.