427 Pa. Super. 409 - Commonwealth v. MacArthur’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2024
14 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 Illinois v. Vitale · Pennsylvania v. Goldhammer · Commonwealth v. Drum · Commonwealth v. Commander · Commonwealth v. Malone
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Malice exists where there is a particular ill-will, and also where “there is a wickedness of disposition, hardness of heart, wanton conduct, cruelty, recklessness of consequences and a mind regardless of social duty.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a] defendant is acquitted when the ruling of the judge represents a resolution in the defendant's favor, correct or not, of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When reviewing a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, [this court] must determine whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict winner, and granting the Commonwealth all reasonable inferences deducible therefrom, the evidence is sufficient to establish all the elements of the offenses beyond a reasonable doubt.”
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.