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342 Pa. Super. 191 - Commonwealth v. Dear’s Empirical Analysis

1985

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
November 1996
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Kirchberg v. Feenstra · 337 Pa. Super. 548 - Commonwealth v. Black · 163 W. Va. 681 - State v. Green · 56 Cal. App. 3d 685 - People v. Blackburn · 279 Pa. Super. 395 - Commonwealth v. Duncan

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

  1. “is irrelevant to prove either consent or general moral defect of the victim[,]”
    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.