Commonwealth v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently August 2020
11 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 Eckman v. Commonwealth · 388 Pa. Super. 561 - Commonwealth v. Savage · 452 Pa. Super. 488 - Commonwealth v. Dobbs · 391 Pa. Super. 613 - Commonwealth v. Troop · 336 Pa. Super. 628 - Commonwealth v. Brown
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In determining whether a single or multiple conspiracy has been established, we consider several relevant factors. The factors most commonly considered in a totality of the circumstances analysis of the single vs. multiple conspiracies issue ... are: the number of overt acts in common; the overlap of personnel; the time period during which the alleged acts took place; the similarity in methods of operation; the locations in which the alleged acts took place; the extent to which the purported conspiracies have a common objective; and, the degree to which interdependence is needed for the overall operation to succeed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“`common plan or scheme to achieve a common, single, comprehensive goal.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.