441 Pa. Super. 653 - Commonwealth v. Hodge’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably General Accident Insurance Co. of America v. Allen (1997), 454 Pa. Super. 313 - Commonwealth v. Pearson (1996)
57 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 Jones v. Farm Credit Administration · Davis v. United States · Corn Belt Bank v. Armstrong · Hardcastle v. Pennsylvania · Commonwealth v. Sullivan
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]his Court cannot entertain, in the first instance, a request for a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence. This is not an issue of waiver. Even though, as a general rule, a defendant need not file a post-sentence motion in order to preserve issues for appellate review, a weight of the evidence argument may be addressed only by a trial court. Therefore, a defendant, who wishes to seek a new trial on grounds that the verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence, must necessarily raise this issue via post-sentence motion in the trial court. If the trial court denies the motion, the defendant may then file an appeal in which the trial court’s exercise of discretion will be subject to review.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The facts and circumstances established by the Commonwealth “need not be absolutely incompatible with [the] defendant’s innocence, but the question of any doubt is for the jury unless the evidence ‘be so weak and inconclusive that as a matter of law no probability of fact can be drawn from the combined circumstances.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n appellate court may only review the trial court's exercises of discretion in granting or denying a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the evidence; it may not address the underlying question whether the verdict is against the weight of the evidence.”
3 later decisions 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.