COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. James Lee MODAFFARE, Appellant

1992-01-22 · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · United States

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2000-03-21COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Nathan M. MURRAY, AppellantSuperior Court of Pennsylvania 1994-10-05COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant, v. Donald YARGER, AppelleeSupreme Court of Pennsylvania 1993-02-19COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, v. Kenneth M. KASUNIC, AppellantSuperior Court of Pennsylvania

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1988-07-28COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellee, v. Manuel GONZALEZ, AppellantSupreme Court of Pennsylvania

3 point outside the corpus. Read from the text, but no judgment held here answers to them. They are counted rather than hidden: this corpus is a slice, not the law.

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Departure is not detected yet, and the gap is deliberate. Searching for the words the Court might use was measured on 1,019 judgments: "depart from" appears 100 times and most often means departing from the facts found by a domestic court; "overruled" appears 44 times, usually about a domestic judgment; "abandon" appears 123 times, most often as abandoned firearms. Tightened to require the Court itself as the subject, precision was still around 40%, the rest being a dissenting judge complaining, or a national supreme court departing from its own case-law. Telling a lawyer an authority is dead when it is alive is worse than saying nothing, so nothing is what this says until each candidate can be judged properly.

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