Commonwealth v. McDonough’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2017
24 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 Leary v. United States · United States v. Martin Linen Supply Co. · Commonwealth v. Campana · Commonwealth v. Kane · 331 Pa. Super. 307 - Commonwealth v. Smalis
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant’s argument must fail because her admitted failure to notify PennDot of her new address violates 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1515 and thus, precludes her reliance on the defense of insufficient notice, where notice was sent to her address of record. Commonwealth v. Heckman, 404 Pa.Super. 335 , 590 A.2d 1261 (1991). Commonwealth v. Kane, supra, [ 460 Pa. 582 , 333 A.2d 925 (1975) ], is inapposite because, in that case, the defendant’s notice of suspension was not sent to defendant’s address of record with PennDot, but instead, due to a typographical error, was sent to an address at which defendant had never resided. Unlike Kane, in the present case, it was appellant’s own conduct which rendered actual notice impossible. We cannot allow appellant to use a violation of one law to circumvent a violation of another law. Therefore, we conclude that, although actual notice of suspension is still a necessary element of the crime of driving while operating privilege is suspended or revoked (75 Pa.C.S.A § 1543), a defendant s failure to notify PennDot of a change of address pursuant to 75 Pa.C.S.A. § 1515, precludes his or her reliance on the defense of insufficient notice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the form of the [trial] judge's action is not controlling . . . we must determine whether the ruling of the judge, whatever its label, actually represents a resolution, correct or not, of some or all of the factual elements of the offense charged.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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