354 Pa. Super. 128 - Commonwealth v. Samuels’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 367 Pa. Super. 484 - Commonwealth v. Kyle (1987), 368 Pa. Super. 327 - Commonwealth v. Pearsall (1987)
45 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 Immigration & Naturalization Service v. Chadha · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Commonwealth v. Hubbard · Commonwealth v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Meyers
Most-quoted passages
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“(a) Definitions. — As used in this section the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection: "Rape crisis center.” Any office, institution or center offering assistance to victims of sexual assault and their families through crisis intervention, medical and legal accompaniment and follow-up counseling. "Sexual assault counselor.” A person who is engaged in any office, institution or center defined as a rape crisis center under this section, who has undergone 40 hours of training and is under the control of a direct services supervisor of a rape crisis center, whose primary purpose is the rendering of advice, counseling or assistance to victims of sexual assault. "Victim.” A person who consults a sexual assault counselor for the purpose of securing advice, counseling or assistance concerning a mental, physical or emotional condition caused by a sexual assault. "Confidential communication.” Information transmitted between a victim of sexual assault and a sexual assault counselor in the course of that relationship and in confidence by a means which, so far as the victim is aware, does not disclose the information to a third person other than those who are present to further the interests of the victim in the consultation or those to whom disclosure is reasonably necessary for the transmission of the information or an accomplishment of the purposes for which the sexual assault counselor is consulted. The term includes all information receiv”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“. . . in computing a defendant's prior record score for sentencing purposes, a sentencing court cannot count that defendant's prior misdemeanor convictions not involving use of a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“a court is not to rule on the constitutionality of a statute unless it is absolutely necessary to do so in order to decide the issue before it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Commonwealth v. Hull
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