347 Pa. Super. 37 - Commonwealth v. Tessel’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 367 Pa. Super. 333 - Commonwealth v. Bolden (1987), Commonwealth v. McMullen (1996)
31 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Barrett v. United States · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Dancer · Commonwealth v. Ware
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[wjhere a defendant’s confession relates to two separate crimes with which he is charged, and where independent evidence establishes the corpus delicti of only one of those crimes, the confession may be admissible as evidence of the commission of the other crime. This will be the case only where the relationship between the two crimes is sufficiently close to ensure that the policies underlying the corpus delicti rule are not violated.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Use of suspended sentences in this Commonwealth has been subject to varying interpretations. In my view it would be best to have the issue squarely before the court and briefed before determining whether to abandon its use ... I therefore would refrain from deciding the issue since it was not raised by the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A person may not be convicted both for burglary and for the offense which it was his intent to commit after the burglarious entry or for an attempt to commit that offense, unless the additional offense constitutes a felony of the first or second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.