431 Pa. Super. 125 - Commonwealth v. Swann’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
69 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 71 later decisions — most recently June 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Archer (1998), 454 Pa. Super. 109 - Commonwealth v. Peer (1996)
69 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. Klinghoffer · Commonwealth v. Jackson · Commonwealth v. Heck · Commonwealth v. Strand · 407 Pa. Super. 343 - Commonwealth v. Boyles
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 71 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In evaluating a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, we must determine whether, viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as verdict winner, together with all reasonable inferences therefrom, the trier of fact could have found that each and every element of the crimes charged was established beyond a reasonable doubt.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“Consistency in verdicts in criminal cases is not necessary. Commonwealth v. Strand, 464 Pa. 544 , 347 A.2d 675 (1975). This Court has stated, “When an acquittal on one count in an indictment is inconsistent with a conviction on a second count, the court looks upon [the] acquittal as no more than the jury’s assumption of a power which they had no right to exercise, but to which they were disposed through lenity.” Commomwealth v. Lloyd, 376 Pa.Super. 188, 191 , 545 A.2d 890, 892 (1988), appeal denied, 522 Pa. 602 , 562 A.2d 825 (1989) (quoting Commonwealth v. Shaffer, 279 Pa.Super. 18 , 420 A.2d 722 (1980) (citations omitted)) ... Thus, this Court will not disturb guilty verdicts on the basis of apparent inconsistencies as long as there is evidence to support the verdict. Commonwealth v. Boyles, 407 Pa.Super. 343 , 595 A.2d 1180 (1991), appeal denied, 531 Pa. 651 , 613 A.2d 556 (1992).”
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.