394 Pa. Super. 591 - Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably Commonwealth v. Morales (1997), 419 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Trimble (1992)
25 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 Coy v. Iowa · Commonwealth v. Lark · Rosche v. McCoy · Commonwealth v. Cargo · 378 Pa. Super. 353 - Commonwealth v. Groff
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.
“It would be difficult to conceive of a trial at which the prosecution’s evidence was not prejudicial to the defendant. Commonwealth v. Moore, 389 Pa.Super. 473 , 567 A.2d 701 (1989). “The difficulty arises when the evidence is so prejudicial that it sweeps the [fact finder] beyond a rational consideration of guilt or innocence of the crime on trial.” Commonwealth v. Moore, 389 Pa.Super. at 483, 567 A.2d at 706 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“A witness is presumed competent to testify unless proven otherwise. When a proposed witness is under fourteen years of age, however, there must be a searching judicial inquiry as to mental capacity. This inquiry will probe the capacity to communicate, observe and remember, and a consciousness of the duty to speak the truth in proportion to the witness’s chronological immaturity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“There must be (1) such capacity to communicate, including as it does both an ability to understand questions and to frame and express intelligent answers, (2) mental capacity to observe the occurrence itself and the capacity of remembering what it is that she [he] is called to testify about and (3) a consciousness of the duty to speak the truth.”
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.