362 Pa. Super. 176 - Commonwealth v. Westcott’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
63 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently January 2026 · most notably 392 Pa. Super. 100 - Commonwealth v. Fromal (1990), Commonwealth v. Kelley (2002)
63 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. · Kolender v. Lawson · Smith v. Goguen · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Washington v. Maroney · Rose v. Locke
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[18 Pa.C.S.A.] § 3121. Rape A person commits a felony of the first degree when he engages in sexual intercourse with another person not his spouse: (1) by forcible compulsion; (2) by threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution ____ [18 Pa.C.S.A.] § 3123. Involuntary Deviate Sexual Intercourse. A person commits a felony of the first degree when he engages in deviate sexual intercourse with another person: (1) by forcible compulsion; (2) by threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution____”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“However, the constitutional prohibition against vagueness does not invalidate every statute which could have been drafted with greater precision. Due process requires only that the law give sufficient warning so that individuals may conform their conduct so as to avoid that which the law forbids.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a criminal statute must give reasonable notice of the conduct which it proscribes to a person charged with violating its interdiction.”
2 later decisions 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.