450 Pa. Super. 220 - Commonwealth v. Tapper’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently March 2019
14 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 · Corn Belt Bank v. Armstrong · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · Commonwealth v. LaCava · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court in Brown further declared that: Unlike the challenge of legal sufficiency of the evidence, the complaint that the verdict was against the weight of the evidence requires an assessment of the credibility of the testimony offered by the Commonwealth. It is a rule of the Commonwealth that an appellate tribunal should not entertain a challenge to the weight of the evidence since their [sic] examination is confined to the "cold record." [citation omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An appellate court may only review the trial court’s exercise of discretion in granting or denying a new trial on the grounds that the verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence; it may not address “the underlying question whether the verdict is against the weight of the evidence.””
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.