451 Pa. Super. 500 - Commonwealth v. Luktisch’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Archer (1998), 2015 Pa. Super. 138 - Commonwealth v. Tyson (2015)
47 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 · Commonwealth v. McGrogan · Eckman v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Birdsong · Commonwealth v. Miller
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is true that the date of the commission of the offense must be fixed with reasonable certainty. Nevertheless, this rule has been somewhat relaxed when the victim is a child. In Commonwealth v. Groff , this Court stated that when a young child is a victim of crime, it is often impossible to ascertain the exact date when the crime occurred. He or she may only have a vague sense of the days of the week, the months of the year, and the year itself. If such children are to be protected by the criminal justice system, a certain degree of imprecision concerning times and dates must be tolerated. Id. (Internal quotations and citations omitted; emphasis added).”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“`the Commonwealth must be allowed a reasonable measure of flexibility when faced with the special difficulties involved in ascertaining the date of an assault upon a young child.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. GP
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.