Com. v. RPS’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 2007
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Rosche v. McCoy · Commonwealth v. Seese · Commonwealth v. Garcia · 250 Pa. Super. 202 - Commonwealth v. Mangello · 385 Pa. Super. 317 - Commonwealth v. Dunkle
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[t]he determination of competency is a matter for the sound discretion of the trial court, which will not be disturbed absent a clear abuse of that discretion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. DJA“the mental capacity to observe the occurrence itself and the capacity of remembering what it is that she is called to testify about,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. DJA
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.