Commonwealth v. Woods’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2025
9 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. Simmons · Commonwealth v. Lively · 388 Pa. Super. 561 - Commonwealth v. Savage · Commonwealth v. Samuel · 415 Pa. Super. 65 - Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is important to point out that the violation of the Firearms Act was separate and apart from appellant’s usage of the firearm in the assaults. That is to say, appellant would have been guilty of violating § 6108 by carrying a weapon regardless of whether or not he used the weapon in the commission of a crime. Logically speaking then, the Commonwealth’s decision to charge him with two violations of this section is wholly arbitrary. Under § 6108 a crime is committed by carrying a weapon on a public street. In the context of an uninterrupted or continuous carrying of a weapon at what point does one stop “carrying” a firearm on the street and start anew? Does one commit a violation of the Act with every step he takes while carrying a firearm? Or does one commit a violation based upon a certain passage of time? If so, how much time must pass before a new offense begins? Is it a separate offense for every hour one carries a weapon? Or every ten minutes? The fact of the matter is there was no evidence to indicate that appellant carried the subject weapon in other than an uninterrupted fashion for the entire period encompassing the two assaults, as well an indeterminate period of time before and after the assaults. Since under the Act commission of the offense is not predicated upon the commission of a crime with the weapon the charging of two violations is no more logical than charging appellant for one offense every ten minutes, or every hour, or every step he took, while carryi”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the accused intentionally acts in a manner which constitutes a substantial or significant step toward perpetrating serious bodily injury upon another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“for aggravated assault purposes, can be found where”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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