Commonwealth v. Weimer’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

23 state decisions

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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) Definition of conspiracy. — A person is guilty of conspiracy with another person or persons to commit a crime if with the intent of promoting or facilitating its commission he: (1) agrees with such other person or persons that they or one or more of them will engage in conduct which constitutes such crime or an. attempt or solicitation to commit such crime; or (2) agrees to aid such other person or persons in the planning or commission of such crime or of an attempt or solicitation to commit such crime.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. McClelland · Commonwealth v. Fisher

2. “[T]he fact that conspiracy requires an intent to achieve a certain objective means that individuals who have together committed a certain crime have not necessarily participated in a conspiracy to commit that crime.... It follows, therefore, that there is no such thing as a conspiracy to commit a crime which is defined in terms of recklessly or negligently causing a result.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Fisher

3. “The crime of conspiracy is a 'specific intent crime,' in that it requires a specific intent of promoting or facilitating the commission of the crime which is the object of the conspiracy.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Commonwealth v. McClelland