Commonwealth v. Reed’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

25 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “(a) Offense defined.-A person commits an offense if he is intentionally in contact with a minor for the purpose of engaging in ...[a]ny of the offenses enumerated in Chapter 31 (relating to sexual offenses) ... (b) Grading.-A violation of subsection (a) is: (1) an offense of the same grade and degree as the most serious underlying offense in subsection (a) for which the defendant contacted the minor; or (2) a misdemeanor of the first degree; whichever is greater. 7”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Baker-Myers · 2016 Pa. Super. 105 - Commonwealth v. Aikens

2. “have been accorded a special weight in the law.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth v. Baker-Myers · 2016 Pa. Super. 105 - Commonwealth v. Aikens

3. “if, with malicious intention toward the race ... of another individual or group of individuals, he commits an offense under any other provision of this article or under Chapter 33 ... or under section 3503 ... or under section 5504 ... with respect to such individual ... or with respect to one or more members of such a group.”

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