Commonwealth v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
74 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 74 later decisions — most recently January 2001 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jermyn (1987), 262 Pa. Super. 280 - Commonwealth v. Lee (1978)
74 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 Chambers v. Mississippi · Webb v. Texas · Commonwealth v. Butler · Commonwealth v. Schmidt · Commonwealth v. Bailey
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 74 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]ppellant complains that the testimony of a defense witness, Frank Mack, was improperly excluded. In his offer of proof, appellant contended that Mack would have corroborated his allegation that Johnson illegally sold drugs without prescriptions. Mack would have testified that he lived across the street from the pharmacy, had observed young males obtaining pills without prescriptions, and had consulted with authorities for the purpose of watching the store. Although it was the jury’s prerogative to assess the credibility of the witness and the weight to be attributed to his testimony, the proffered testimony definitely was relevant to the proposition upon which the defense was building its case. The exclusion of this testimony, therefore, was improper. Commonwealth v. Bailey, 450 Pa. 201 , 299 A.2d 298 (1973); Commonwealth v. Collins, 447 Pa. 300 , 290 A.2d 121 (1972). In Bailey, supra, the trial court excluded testimony of two witnesses who had borrowed money from a moneylender named Robinson. We held that this was reversible error because the testimony would have supported Bailey’s version as to his own dealings with Robinson and his reason for going to his house. Id., 450 Pa. at 206-07 , 299 A.2d at 301 . The Bailey court relied upon Commonwealth v. Collins, 447 Pa. 300 , 290 A.2d 121 (1972), a similar case in which we held it error to refuse to admit testimony of others who had dealt with the deceased proprietor as a fence in order to substantiate Collins’ version of hi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the characteristics of one particular panel are not the type of facts which constitute grounds for a challenge. Rather, . . . the challenge must be to the selection procedures themselves, and not to the composition of a particular panel . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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