334 Pa. Super. 415 - Commonwealth v. Slyman’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 39 Cal. 3d 481 - People v. Aston (1985), Blakeney v. Commissioner of Correction (1998)
33 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
Applies 21 U.S.C. § 812 (§ 202 of the Controlled Substances Act)
Relies on Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Gravely · Commonwealth v. Wable · 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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) motive; (2) intent; (3) absence of mistake or accident; (4) a common scheme, plan or design embracing the commission of two or more crimes which are so related to each other that proof of one tends to prove the others or (5) to establish the identity of the person charged with the commission of the crime on trial under circumstances where there is such a logical connection between the crimes that proof of one will naturally tend to show that the accused is the person who committed the crime. Commonwealth v. Slyman, 334 Pa.Super. 415, 438 , 483 A.2d 519 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“independently by means of chemical synthesis.”
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.