353 Pa. Super. 390 - Commonwealth v. Bailey’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 1988
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. MacOlino · Commonwealth v. Murray · 302 Pa. Super. 145 - Commonwealth v. Galloway · Commonwealth v. Pronkoskie · 164 Pa. Super. 516 - Commonwealth v. Krick
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A spontaneous declaration by a person whose mind has been suddenly made subject to an overpowering emotion caused by some unexpected and shocking occurrence, which that person had just participated in or closely witnessed, and made in reference to some phase of that occurrence which he perceived, and this declaration must be made so near the occurrence both in time and place as to exclude the likelihood of having emanated in whole or in part from his reflective faculties.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“properly limited to establishing that a complaint was made and to identifying the occurrence complained of with the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.