373 Pa. Super. 285 - Commonwealth v. Tharp’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2023
19 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 342 Pa. Super. 89 - Lokay v. Lehigh Valley Cooperative Farmers, Inc. · 352 Pa. Super. 163 - Papandrea v. Hartman · 337 Pa. Super. 264 - Werner v. Quality Service Oil Co., Inc. · 336 Pa. Super. 512 - Mickey v. Ayers · Crotty v. Eeading Industries, Inc.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] vehicle owner giving permission for another to drive his vehicle is entitled to presume that that driver will obey the law. By extension, then, the owner enjoys a presumption that his giving of permission is lawful and the Commonwealth must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that this was not so. Only when the owner, at the time he gives permission, or, if present during the permitted operation of his vehicle by another, knows or has reason to know or suspect that the driver will not obey the law is this presumption rebutted.”
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.