439 Pa. Super. 625 - Commonwealth v. Lopez’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 2003 Pa. Super. 126 - Commonwealth v. Gruff (2003), 2001 Pa. Super. 315 - Commonwealth v. Galindes (2001)
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 In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991 · Styer v. Hugo · Commonwealth v. Jones · Commonwealth v. Wojdak · Commonwealth v. Alexander
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person acts intentionally with respect to a material element of an offense when: (i) if the element involves the nature of his conduct or a result thereof, it is his conscious object to engage in conduct of that nature or to cause such a result; and (ii) if the element involves the attendant circumstances, he is aware of the existence of such circumstances or he believes or hopes that they exist.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(1) attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another, or causes such injury intentionally, knowingly or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference. to the value of human life; ... [or] (4) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] person who discharges a weapon into an empty residence can commit an aggravated assault if he possesses the requisite intent to cause serious bodily injury ... even though it is impossible for that person to actually cause such injury because of the absence of a person inside[.]”
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.