400 Pa. Super. 606 - Commonwealth v. Hogans’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently February 2013 · most notably Scarpitti v. Weborg (1992), Blue v. Blue (1992)
31 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 Commonwealth v. Wilson · 379 Pa. Super. 55 - Commonwealth v. Grayson · 288 Pa. Super. 219 - Commonwealth v. Herman
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Courts have stated that “[p]roof that the accused was the perpetrator of the crime is not required.” ... The crucial determination in applying the corpus delicti rule is whether, at the close of the case, the proof of the corpus delicti was sufficient to permit the fact finder to consider defendant’s admission or confession [citations omitted]. 3”
2 later decisions 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.