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← 334 Pa. Super. 89 - Commonwealth v. Kysor

334 Pa. Super. 89 - Commonwealth v. Kysor’s Empirical Analysis

1984

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 1992
most recently cited

2 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on United States v. Lovasco · Lefkowitz v. Newsome · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Campana · Russell v. Douthitt

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

  1. “[I]t is not necessary to produce the body to acquire a homicide conviction. Circumstantial evidence may be so convincing that it alone can satisfy the Commonwealth's burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”
    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.