339 Pa. Super. 428 - Commonwealth v. Pemberth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably 344 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Williams (1985), 351 Pa. Super. 56 - Commonwealth v. Campbell (1986)
39 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 Braunfeld v. Gibbons · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe · Commonwealth v. Soudani · 256 Pa. Super. 344 - Commonwealth v. Darush · 287 Pa. Super. 120 - Commonwealth v. Gouse
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This end has frequently been achieved in one of two ways: either the Commonwealth will give an accused express notice by charging him with the less culpable offense or it will give him implicit notice through the information where the proven, but uncharged crime is a lesser-included offense of the charged, but unproven, offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person is guilty of theft if he intentionally receives, retains, or disposes of movable property of another knowing that it has been stolen, or believing that it has probably been stolen, unless the property is received, retained, or disposed with intent to restore it to the owner.”
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.