Commonwealth v. Moon’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

24 state decisions

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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “. . . the defendant objects to the memorandum made by Commonwealth's witness during an interview with the defendant while he was in the hospital. This memorandum was not signed or written by the defendant, nor is such necessary. The defendant was unable to speak due to his self-inflicted wounds and was instructed to nod his head yes or no, and to hold up fingers to indicate `how many.' The memorandum was clearly admissible just as an unsigned or oral statement of the defendant would have been. Its weight was for the jury, and the defendant was not harmed by the admission in evidence of the memorandum. . . .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Finnerty v. Darby

2. “The defendant ... has no standing in an appellate court to complain ... unless the error contributed to the result reached by the jury. Id. 389 Pa. at 308-309 , 132 A.2d at 226 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 320 Pa. Super. 166 - Commonwealth v. Pittman