327 Pa. Super. 465 - Commonwealth v. Gosnell’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Appellant struck what he believed to be a large pothole. He had proceeded about two or three blocks before returning to investigate. At the scene, Appellant found the victim, severely injured, lying in the road. He pulled the victim closer to the roadside and then ran to a nearby phone and anonymously summoned the police. When the police arrived, the Appellant, giving them his name, address and phone number, told the police that he had seen nothing and was the first to arrive at the scene.... Six or seven hours after the Appellant had returned home he went to the police and told them it was most likely he who hit the victim, although evidence was presented at trial that one or two other vehicles may have run over the victim.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2003 Pa. Super. 319 - Commonwealth v. Long

2. “When analyzing ... Appellant’s behavior under this standard to determine whether it violated the Act, two things must be observed. One, the purpose of the Act must be considered. As the Commonwealth Court observed in Commonwealth v. Stamoolis, 6 Pa.Cmwlth. 617 , 297 A.2d 532, 533 (1972), the aim of the law was at preventing drivers from leaving the scene of the accident and trying to avoid their responsibilities. Second, in applying the law strictly an absurd result must not follow.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 2002 Pa. Super. 77 - Commonwealth v. Klein