395 Pa. Super. 244 - Commonwealth v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis

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9 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[I])n order to prevent a charge based on one method of unlawfully obtaining property from being defeated by the defense that the property was acquired by a different unlawful method, the statute allows the Commonwealth to introduce evidence at trial of any form of theft regardless of the form of theft charged, but always subject to the defendant's right to fair notice and an opportumty to defend.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Bush · 2017 UT App 142 - State v. Gibson

2. “An accusation of theft may be supported by evidence that it was committed in any manner that would be theft under this chapter, notwithstanding the specification of a different manner in the indictment or information.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 422 Pa. Super. 595 - Commonwealth v. Matty · State v. Bush

3. “[tlhe purpose of consolidation ... is not to avoid the need to confront the substantive difficulties in the definition of theft offerises. The appropriate objective is to avoid procedural problems'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. State v. Bush