440 Pa. Super. 484 - Commonwealth v. Garaffa’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2006
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Thompson · Commonwealth v. Mlinarich · Consolidated Coal Co. v. Vandruff · Commonwealth v. Berkowitz
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits a felony of the first degree when he engages in sexual intercourse with another person not his spouse: (1) by forcible compulsion; (2) by threat of forcible compulsion that would prevent resistance by a person of reasonable resolution!)]”
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.