444 Pa. Super. 545 - Commonwealth v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently January 2022
5 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 Poola v. UNEMP. COMP. BD. OF REVIEW · Commonwealth v. Howard · Bentivoglio v. Ralston · Commonwealth v. Manigault · 371 Pa. Super. 315 - Commonwealth v. Delligatti
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The witness is so hostile or prejudiced against the party expected to call him that there is a small possibility of obtaining unbiased truth; 2. The testimony of such a witness is comparatively unimportant, cumulative, or inferior to that already presented; 3. The uncalled witness is equally available to both parties; 4. There is a satisfactory explanation as to why the party failed to call such a witness; 5. The witness is not available or not within the control of the party against whom the negative inference is desired; and 6.The testimony of the uncalled witness is not within the scope of the natural interest of the party failing to produce him.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“peculiarly within the knowledge and reach”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bass v. Clark
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.