339 Pa. Super. 237 - Commonwealth v. Donaldson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2014
6 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 324 Pa. Super. 420 - Commonwealth v. Taylor · Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Emanuel · 278 Pa. Super. 490 - Commonwealth v. Wilkinson · 323 Pa. Super. 512 - Commonwealth v. Williams
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.
“(a) Offense defined. — A person is guilty of assault if he: (1) attempts to cause or intentionally, knowingly or recklessly causes bodily injury to another; (b) Grading. — Simple assault is a misdemeanor of the second degree unless committed in a fight or scuffle entered into by mutual consent, in which case it is a misdemeanor of the third degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(b) The information shall be signed by the attorney for the Commonwealth and shall be valid and sufficient in law if it contains: (5) a plain and concise statement of the essential elements of the offense substantially the same as or cognate to the offense alleged in the complaint.”
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.