423 Pa. Super. 289 - Commonwealth v. Brinkley’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
16
cited by 16 later decisions
1
states following
September 1998
most recently cited
16 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Carroll v. United States · Brinegar v. United States · Beck v. State of Ohio · Texas v. Brown · Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State Penitentiary
Most-quoted passages
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“... In reviewing this ruling our initial task is to determine whether the factual findings are supported by the record. “In making this determination, we are to consider only the evidence of the prosecution’s witnesses and so much evidence of the defense as, fairly read in the context of the record as a whole, remains uncontradicted.” ... If, when so viewed, the evidence supports the factual findings we are bound by such findings; we may reverse only if the legal conclusions drawn therefrom are in error ...[.] [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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