358 Pa. Super. 225 - Commonwealth v. Robbins’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2007
17 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 Connally v. General Construction Co. · Smith v. Goguen · Rose v. Locke · Commonwealth v. Colson · Commonwealth v. Heinbaugh
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Prostitution—a person is guilty .of prostitution; a misdemeanor of the third degree, if he or she: (1) is an inmate of a house of prostitution or otherwise engages in sexual activity as a business; ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[S]ince the term “sexual activity” is undefined by statute, we are obliged to construe that term according to its common and approved usage. When the term “sexual activity” is examined in light of the statute’s underlying purpose of prohibiting commercial exploitation of sexual gratification and also in light of its common and approved usage, there is no doubt that masturbation for hire falls within the statute’s proscription.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In the mind of a man of ‘common intelligence’ the term sexual activity clearly encompasses masturbation as a business. Indeed, as we have already observed, it is difficult to believe that any man of common intelligence would consider the massaging of the genitals of an un clothed man by a nude or partially nude female to be anything other than sexual activity.””
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.