339 Pa. Super. 284 - Commonwealth v. Charles’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 362 Pa. Super. 328 - Commonwealth v. Meo (1987), 1999 Pa. Super. 88 - Commonwealth v. duPont (1999)
27 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 Gideon v. Wainwright · Burgett v. Texas · Bullington v. Missouri · Commonwealth v. Campana · Greer v. Beto
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... the defense has the burden of alleging invalid prior convictions, and that if the allegations appear to have merit, the court ordinarily should inquire into the circumstances surrounding the convictions. If the allegations warrant it, the court should require the production of evidence by the Commonwealth showing the validity of the convictions. If the defendant fails to prove to the satisfaction of the court that the inference of constitutional adjudications is wrong, the court may infer that a presentence report showing convictions is accurate, and proceed on that basis.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t appears that the fifth category of IDSI [now (a)(6) ], deviate sexual intercourse with a person less than 16 [now 13] years of age, is intended to prohibit any deviate sexual intercourse between an adult and a minor.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re BAM
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.