Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Harper · Commonwealth v. Besch · 414 Pa. Super. 208 - Commonwealth v. Smith · 434 Pa. Super. 14 - Commonwealth v. Montalvo · 426 Pa. Super. 66 - Commonwealth v. Hlatky
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an appellate court, viewing all the evidence and reasonable inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth as the verdict winner, must determine whether the evidence was sufficient to enable the fact finder to find that all of the elements of the offenses were established beyond a reasonable doubt.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he Commonwealth may sustain its burden by proving the crime's elements with evidence which is entirely circumstantial and the trier of fact, who determines credibility of witnesses and the weight to give the evidence produced, is free to believe all, part, or none of the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Rbg
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.