372 Pa. Super. 88 - Commonwealth v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 336 Pa. Super. 609 - Commonwealth v. Jackson · 290 Pa. Super. 182 - Commonwealth v. Barnhart · Gregg v. Fisher · Burton v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance · 320 Pa. Super. 19 - Commonwealth v. Gonce
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[t]he law furnishes no test of relevancy, but tacitly refers it to logic and general experience. Evidence is admissible which tends to make the fact at issue more or less probable or intelligible or to show the origin and history of the transaction between the parties and explain its character.” Gregg v. Fisher, 377 Pa. 445, 454 , 105 A.2d 105, 110 (1954). Therefore, issues of relevancy are left in large measure to the sound discretion of the trial court, whose decisions will not be reversed in the absence of a clear abuse of discretion. See: Commonwealth v. Saksek, 361 Pa.Super. 173 , 522 A.2d 70 (1987); Commonwealth v. Underwood, 347 Pa.Super. 256 , 500 A.2d 820 (1985); Commonwealth v. Jackson, 336 Pa.Super. 609 , 486 A.2d 431 (1984); Commonwealth v. Lumpkins, 324 Pa.Super. 8 , 471 A.2d 96 (1984).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The grant of a new trial on the ground that the verdict is against the weight of the evidence is generally committed to the sound discretion of the trial court.” Commonwealth v. Larew, 289 Pa.Super. 34, 37 , 432 A.2d 1037, 1038 (1981). In reviewing the evidence we must look at all the evidence. Commonwealth v. Gonce, 320 Pa.Super. 19 , 26 n. 1, 466 A.2d 1039 , 1043 n. 1 (1983). To warrant a new trial, “it must appear from the record that the jury’s verdict was so contrary to the evidence as to shock one’s sense of justice and to make the award of a new trial imperative, so that right may be given another opportunity to prevail.” Commonwealth v. Barnhart, 290 Pa.Super. 182, 185 , 434 A.2d 191, 192 (1981).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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