329 Pa. Super. 42 - Commonwealth v. Gordon’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 72 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lantzy (1999), Hebron v. State (1993)
70 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 Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Riggins · Commonwealth v. Martin · Commonwealth v. Peterson
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 72 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“except as otherwise provided or prescribed by law, a court upon notice to the parties may modify or rescind any order within 30 days after its entry, notwithstanding the prior termination of any term of court, if no appeal from such order has been taken or allowed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In testing the sufficiency of the evidence, we accept as true all evidence upon which the finder of fact could properly base the verdict, giving the Commonwealth the benefit of all reasonable inferences from the evidence, ... and then ask whether, so viewed, the evidence was sufficient to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, ____ Although a guilty verdict may not be based on “suspicion or surmise,” ... the Commonwealth may rely on circumstantial evidence to prove its case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(a) Offense defined. — A person is guilty of burglary if he enters a building or occupied structure, or separately secured or occupied portion thereof, with intent to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.”
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.