Commonwealth v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2014
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 Maryland v. Craig · Great State Beverages, Inc. v. Wenners · Attwood v. Singletary · Commonwealth v. Travaglia · Commonwealth v. Simmons
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) General rule. — An out-of-court statement made by a child victim or witness, who at the time the statement was made was 12 years of age or younger, describing physical abuse, indecent contact or any of the offenses enumerating in 18 Pa.C.S. Ch. 31 (relating to sexual offenses) performed with or on the child by another, not otherwise admissible by statute or rule of evidence, is admissible in evidence in any criminal proceeding if: (1) the court finds, in an in camera hearing, that the evidence is rele vant and that the time, content and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia or reliability; and (2) the child either: (i) testifies at the proceeding; or (ii) is unavailable as a witness”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.