389 Pa. Super. 606 - Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2025
17 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 386 Pa. Super. 322 - Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Sudler · Commonwealth v. Syre · 381 Pa. Super. 1 - Commonwealth v. Anderson · 366 Pa. Super. 597 - Commonwealth v. Darden
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The defendant] concealed her daughter’s corpse from the proper authorities, and did not make arrangements for burial because she said she was afraid and confused. In so concealing the corpse, she allowed it to be eaten by rodents and become mummified. ’ The statute was intended to .cover - [the defendant’s] conduct. Moreover, as the trial. court concluded, such conduct does indeed constitute an outrage to ordinary family sensibilities; therefore, we must affirm appellant’s conviction for abuse of corpse.”
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.