426 Pa. Super. 31 - Commonwealth v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 1995
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blockburger v. United States · Grady v. Corbin · 400 Pa. Super. 12 - Commonwealth v. Harris · Com. v. Kemmerer · 411 Pa. Super. 576 - Commonwealth v. Wallace
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The doctrine of collateral estoppel prevents relitigation between parties of an issue where that issue has been previously decided by a competent legal forum. The doctrine is applicable to criminal prosecutions as well as to civil matters." Commonwealth v. Wallace, 411 Pa.Super. 576, 581 , 602 A.2d 345, 348 (1992). The doctrine, "which is part of the concept of double jeopardy, requires that where an ultimate fact has been necessarily established in favor of a defendant in a former prosecution, the issue may not be relitigated in any subsequent proceeding against the defendant." Commonwealth v. Wharton, 406 Pa.Super. 430, 432 , 594 A.2d 696, 697 (1991) (emphasis in original) (citations omitted).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[whether] the government, to establish an essential element of an offense charged in [a subsequent] prosecution, will prove conduct that constitutes an offense for which the defendant has already been prosecuted.”
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.