379 Pa. Super. 589 - Commonwealth v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably 382 Pa. Super. 116 - Commonwealth v. Pankraz (1989), 407 Pa. Super. 343 - Commonwealth v. Boyles (1991)
45 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 Dunn v. United States · Commonwealth v. Carter · Commonwealth v. Parrotto · 279 Pa. Super. 18 - Commonwealth v. Shaffer · Commonwealth v. Lambert
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“CORRUPTION OR [sic] MINORS The defendant did ... corrupt April Mateer ... in that he did have sex with her and did perform oral sex on her. The information filed against appellant states, in pertinent part: THIRD COUNT: did, being of the age of 18 years and upward ... corrupt or tend to corrupt the morals of a child____ Child or children: April Mateer Age(s): 11 years old Acts of Corruption: The defendant engaged in involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with April Mateer.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n its discussion, the trial court refers to "indecent assault" and the underlying alleged "specific acts" interchangeably, implying that they amount to the same thing. The court then proceeds on the assumption that indecent assault is an element of corruption of a minor and so interprets the general jury verdict as presenting a finding that the underlying act was not committed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A]n acquittal on indecent assault cannot be interpreted to mean as a matter of law that there was insufficient evidence to establish that the underlying acts in fact occurred. This is especially so because the crime of indecent assault would have required proving not only that the underlying act occurred, but that the victims did not consent to the conduct.”
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.