409 Pa. Super. 456 - Commonwealth v. Bartolacci’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 413 Pa. Super. 442 - Commonwealth v. Wanner (1992), 454 Pa. Super. 594 - Commonwealth v. Michuck (1996)
30 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. Uhrinek
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here a test is performed on blood serum rather than whole blood the fact finder must be informed of this and must be provided with evidence of the alcohol by weight in the defendant’s blood in order to properly sustain a conviction based upon a violation of § 3731. Evidence offered of a reading based upon a test of blood serum, without conversion, will not suffice.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The Commonwealth in an effort to prove that (decedent’s) death was caused by Appellant driving with a blood alcohol content of .10% or greater offered expert testimony based upon blood tests performed after the accident. It became apparent during cross-examination that the testing of Appellant’s blood was a test performed on serum rather than whole blood. The manager of the toxicology section of the Allegheny County Department of Laboratories testified that serum is acquired after a whole blood sample is centrifuged and the top liquid residue is removed. This witness also testified that when serum blood is tested the results will show a blood alcohol content which can range from between 10 to 20 percent higher than a test performed on whole blood. “The”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“‘An accused has a fundamental right to present defensive evidence so long as such evidence is relevant and not excluded by an established evidentiary rule.’ Once it is determined that the proffered evidence was relevant, due process requires its admission. ‘Even the most myopic interpretation of [Article I, Section 9 of the Pennsylvania Constitution] would necessarily concede the right to offer relevant evidence to challenge a material issue of fact.’ ‘Causation is an issue of fact for the jury.’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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