Commonwealth v. Drawbaugh’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[S]ince the appellant was under arrest on various summary warrants and as the result of a bail process, his conduct does not fit into Subsection (i) grading escape as a felony. We note that if appellant had been arrested pursuant to a charge of "bail jumping”,____the result would be very different because under those circumstances, the arrest would have been for a felony____ However, the facts as they actually exist in this case do not bring it under the statutory provision grading escape as a felony.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 400 Pa. Super. 280 - Commonwealth v. Janis

2. “(d) Grading.— (1) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree where: (i) the actor was under arrest for or detained on a charge of felony or following conviction of crime; (ii) the actor employs force, threat, deadly weapon or other dangerous instrumentality to effect the escape; or (iii) a public servant concerned in detention of persons convicted of crime intentionally facilitates or permits an escape from a detention facility.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 367 Pa. Super. 321 - In the Interest of Wilson