379 Pa. Super. 55 - Commonwealth v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently October 2014 · most notably 437 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Berryman (1994), 444 Pa. Super. 170 - Commonwealth v. Henderson (1995)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 317 Pa. Super. 497 - Fireman's Fund Insurance v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance · Commonwealth, Department of Environmental Resources v. Butler County Mushroom Farm · 368 Pa. Super. 327 - Commonwealth v. Pearsall · 362 Pa. Super. 176 - Commonwealth v. Westcott · 340 Pa. Super. 136 - Commonwealth v. Capers
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who has sexual contact with another not his spouse, or causes such other to have sexual contact with him, is guilty of sexual assault, a misdemeanor, if: (1) he knows that the contact is offensive to the other person; or (2) he knows that the other person suffers from a mental disease or defect which renders him or her incapable of appraising the nature of his or her conduct; or (3) he knows that the other person is unaware that a sexual act is being committed; or (4) the other person is less than 10 years old; or (5) he has substantially impaired the other person’s power to appraise or control his or her conduct, by administering or employing without the other's knowledge drugs, intoxicants or other means for the purpose of preventing resistance; or (6) the other person is less than [16] years old and the actor is at least [four] years older than the other person; or (7) the other person is less than 21 years old and the actor is his guardian or otherwise responsible for general supervision of his welfare; or (8) the other person is in custody of law or detained in a hospital or other institution and the actor has supervisory or disciplinary authority over him.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Properly construed, the statute provides that if any part of a victim’s body is brought into contact with a sexual or intimate part of the defendant’s body, without the victim’s consent, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire in either person, such contact constitutes indecent contact. Likewise, if a sexual or intimate part of the victim’s body is brought into contact with any part of the defendant’s body, without the victim’s consent, for the purpose of arousing or gratifying the sexual desire in either person, such contact constitutes indecent contact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The legislature of this Commonwealth established the crime of indecent assault because of a concern for the shame, outrage, and disgust engendered in the victim, rather than because of any physical injury to the victim. Moreover, due to the nature of the offenses sought to be proscribed by the indecent assault statute, and the range of conduct proscribed, the statutory language does not and could not specify each prohibited act.”
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.