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← 431 Pa. Super. 437 - Commonwealth v. Rhoads

431 Pa. Super. 437 - Commonwealth v. Rhoads’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
March 2025
most recently cited

5 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Commonwealth v. Rhodes · Commonwealth v. Shannon · 344 Pa. Super. 246 - Commonwealth v. Whetstine · 267 Pa. Super. 451 - Commonwealth v. Ostolaza · 423 Pa. Super. 619 - Iafrate v. Hadesty

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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “We glean from this examination that the fair import of the statute’s terms including its five subsections 18 Pa.C.S. § 3123 reveals a design to proscribe the same harm, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse. Therefore each subsection of the statute provides an alternative basis upon which the crime can be established.”
    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.