436 Pa. Super. 203 - Commonwealth v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2018
6 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. Kloiber · Smith v. Westchester County Bar Ass'n · 138 Pa. Super. 156 - Commonwealth v. Sharpe · 161 Pa. Super. 193 - Commonwealth v. Ricci · 307 Pa. Super. 213 - Commonwealth v. McKnight
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was testimony offered at trial that the shed door could not be seen at all from the location at which the witness claimed he was standing at the time of the crime, and there was evidence that a person leaving from the side door could not be clearly seen.”
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.