437 Pa. Super. 14 - Commonwealth v. Scales’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Santos (2005), 2007 Pa. Super. 4 - Commonwealth v. Bruce (2007)
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 Commonwealth v. Drum · Commonwealth v. Nelson · 421 Pa. Super. 548 - Stidham v. Millvale Sportsmen's Club · Commonwealth v. Wallace · Commonwealth v. Carroll
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Kinds of culpability defined.— sj; & í¡: i}; # ‡ (2) A person acts knowingly with respect to a material element of an offense when: (i) if the element involves the nature of his conduct or the attendant circumstances, he is aware that his conduct is of that nature or that such circumstances exist; and (ii) if the element involves a result of his conduct, he is aware that it is practically certain that his conduct will cause such a result.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“... the properly admitted trial testimony reveals a dangerously high blood alcohol level and a clear road surface combined with erratic driving and repeated refusals to give up the wheel. Appellant was or should have been aware of the danger that could result from driving so fast and so recklessly, especially after having had so much to drink. Even if he was not aware, his wife repeatedly reminded him of the danger and asked many times if she could drive the car. But appellant recklessly disregarded her pleas and the probability of a tragic result. His conduct in the car was the very type of conduct that the definition of malice describes.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“Here, appellant was driving an older, heavy and high-powered vehicle, at a high rate of speed in a crowded residential neighborhood, and at a time when children play in the streets and on sidewalks in. large numbers. He ignored a stop sign, almost colliding with a vehicle in the intersection. He was told to slow down and responded with “shut up.” After traversing the intersection, apparently without slowing down or braking, he sideswiped another car and swerved onto the curb where he ran into a cement flower container and the children, and without attempting to stop, continued up the street despite calls from bystanders to stop.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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