327 Pa. Super. 72 - Commonwealth v. Kuhn’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 367 Pa. Super. 511 - Commonwealth v. Krum (1987), Commonwealth v. Henry (1990)
46 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. Mayfield · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Butler v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Goodwin · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Ilgenfritz
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An appellate court does not weigh evidence or pass upon the credibility of witnesses, and there is no basis for us to hold as a matter of law that the court’s finding of voluntariness of the confession was not adequately supported and well within the courts discretion.” Kuhn, 327 Pa.Superior Ct. 78-79, 475 A.2d at 106 , citing Commonwealth v. Smith, 447 Pa. 457, 461 , 291 A.2d 103, 104 (1972).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“involuntary intoxication cannot, as a matter of law, be established through evidence showing that the criminal defendant was a chronic alcoholic incapable of voluntarily refraining from ingestion of alcohol”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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