431 Pa. Super. 529 - Commonwealth v. Adamo’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably 437 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Berryman (1994), Commonwealth v. Tate (2003)
29 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 Barker v. Wingo · Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville · Karis v. Karis · Commonwealth v. Klinghoffer · Commonwealth v. Blystone
Most-quoted passages
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“§ 2910. Luring a child into a motor vehicle or structure (a) Offense.Unless the circumstances reasonably indicate that the child is in need of assistance, a person who lures or attempts to lure a child into a motor vehicle or structure without the consent, express or implied, of the child's parent or guardian commits a misdemeanor of the first degree. (b) Affirmative defense.It shall be an affirmative defense to a prosecution under this section that the person lured or attempted to lure the child into the structure for a lawful purpose. (c) Definitions.As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection: "Motor vehicle." Every self-propelled device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn on a public highway. "Structure." A house, apartment building, shop, warehouse, barn, building, vessel, railroad car, cargo container, house car, trailer, trailer coach, camper, mine, floating home or other enclosed structure capable of holding a child, which is not open to the general public.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“he misses the point. For this intended victim, the lure was the offer of the one thousand dollars, not the actual money; for a younger child the lure might be a lollypop or a hamburger at McDonald's. For centuries people have used the prospect of pleasure or financial gain to”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hart“inter alia, is defined as: to tempt by pleasure or gain. Webster's New International Dictionary 1347 (3d ed.1976). Where [the defendant] attempts to show that the Commonwealth has failed to establish a”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Hart
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