Commonwealth v. Allsup’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Booth (2001), Commonwealth v. Gonzalez (1988)
2 federal appellate · 51 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 Miller v. California · Hall v. Cole · Gilbert v. Korvette's Inc. · Commonwealth v. Heinbaugh · Sherwood v. Elgart
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“All prosecutions have been based ... on a “gross flouting of community standards in respect to sexuality or nudity in public.” See Commonwealth v. Heinbaugh, supra (masturbation in public); Commonwealth v. Davidson, 220 Pa.Super. 451 , 289 A.2d 250 (1972) allocatur refused, 221 Pa.Super. xlix (naked motorist stopped a young lady to ask directions); Commonwealth v. Falcone, 202 Pa.Super. 474 , 198 A.2d 421 (1964) (masturbation in a public cemetery); Commonwealth v. Warner, 51 Pa.D. & C.2d 63 (C.P. Centre Cnty.1971) (defendant disrobed in public, made uninvited visits to private homes, and entered a public pizza parlor); Commonwealth v. Anzulewicz, 42 Pa.D. & C.2d 484 (Q.S.Mont.Cnly.1967) (display of genitalia in private dwelling but in front of window where a neighboring family "in the reasonable use of (their) house” could not help but observe defendant's activities); Commonwealth v. Helms, 38 Pa.D. & C.2d 496 (Q.S. York Cnty.), aff'd per curiam, 206 Pa.Super. 743 , 213 A.2d 389 (1965) (no offense made out where defendant's nudity was in a private trailer and prosecution witness had to observe through small, louvered window); Commonwealth v. Alessi, 29 Erie 172 (Q.S.1947) (masturbation in a private home but before large window facing public street).”
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.