336 Pa. Super. 394 - Commonwealth v. Maute’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
76 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 76 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Pursell (1999), 533 So. 2d 1078 - Nixon v. State (1987)
76 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 Frontiero v. Richardson · Tamotsu Tanaka v. Creditors' Committee 1 · Gibson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · Singer v. Sheppard
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 76 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[ojrdinarily, admission of testimony which describes, or from which the jury may infer, past criminal conduct by a defendant constitutes reversible error. However, not all such references warrant reversal. An isolated passing reference to prior criminal activity will not warrant reversal unless the record indicates that prejudice resulted from the remark. There is no per se rule which requires a new trial for every passing reference to prior criminal conduct. Additionally, the possible prejudicial effect of a ... reference to prior criminal conduct ... may, under certain circumstances, be removed by a cautionary instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Mere evidence of a conflict in the prosecution's evidence is not fatal to its case, . . . because the Commonwealth is not bound by everything its witnesses say, and the jury can believe all, part, or none of the testimony (citation omitted). The applicable standard is whether the evidence, taken as a whole, would support a verdict. Commonwealth v. Farquharson, [ 467 Pa. 50, 60 , 354 A.2d 545, 550 (1976)].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) by forcible compulsion; (2) by threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution; (3) who is unconscious; (4) who is so mentally deranged or deficient that such person is incapable of consent; or (5) who is less than 16 years of age.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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