Commonwealth v. Scolieri’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently October 2025 · most notably Commonwealth v. McCoy (2009), In Re: Vencil, N. Appeal of: PA State Police (2017)
34 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. Rosenbloom Finance Corp.
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(b) Kinds of culpability defined.— (1) A person acts intentionally with respect to a material element of an offense when: (i) if the element involves the nature of his conduct or a result thereof, it is his conscious object to engage" in conduct of that nature or to cause such a result; .and (ii) if the element involves the attendant circumstances,-he- is-aware of the existence of such circumstances or he believes or hopes'that they exist. (2) A person acts knowingly with" respect to a material element of an offense when: ' ' ' (i) if the element involves the nature of his conduct or the, attendant circumstances, he is aware that' his conduct is of that nature, or that such circumstances exist; and (ii) if the element involves a result of his conduct, he is aware that it is practically certain that his conduct will cause such a result. ,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“If the Commonwealth were required to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person furnishing alcohol, to a minor knew that he or she was under the age of 21, the statute would be virtually unenforceable. Given the appearance of many young men and women between the ages of 18 and 21, it would be impossible to prove the offender knew that the person being served was under the age of 21.”
1 later decision 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.