456 Pa. Super. 159 - Commonwealth v. Pahel’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2018
17 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 Commonwealth v. MacK · 378 Pa. Super. 111 - Woodward v. Dietrich · 357 Pa. Super. 38 - Commonwealth v. Cardwell · 373 Pa. Super. 116 - Commonwealth v. Ogin · 411 Pa. Super. 33 - 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he purpose of juvenile statutes, as the one at issue here, is basically protective in nature. Consequently these statutes are designed to cover a broad range of conduct in order to safeguard the welfare and security of our children. Because of the diverse types of conduct that must be circumscribed, these statutes are necessarily drawn broadly. It clearly would be impossible to enumerate every particular type of adult conduct against which society wants its children protected. We have therefore sanctioned statutes pertaining to juveniles which proscribe conduct producing or tending to produce a certain defined result ... rather than itemizing every undesirable type of conduct. “The common sense of the community, as well as the sense of decency, propriety and the morality which most people entertain is sufficient to apply the statute to each particular case, and to individuate what particular conduct is rendered criminal by it.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Utilizing a common sense of the community approach to interpret the specific intent element of the statue, we find an implicit recognition that parents at times can make mistakes in judgment and that their children may be harmed as a result. However, for such mistakes to rise to the level of criminal culpability, parents must knowingly allow their children to be at risk with awareness of the potential consequences of their actions or of their failure to act. Id. 456 Pa. Super, at 163, 689 A.2d at 965 (Citing Commonwealth v. Miller, 411 Pa.Super. 33, 41 , 600 A.2d 988, 991-992 (1992)).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“1) [T]he accused [was] aware of his/her duty to protect the child; 2) [T]he accused [was] aware that the child [was] in circumstances that could threaten the child’s physical or psychological welfare; and 3) [T]he accused has either failed to act or has taken action so lame or meager that such actions cannot reasonably be expected to protect the child’s welfare.”
2 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.