Commonwealth v. Trignani’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1988 · most notably 280 Pa. Super. 20 - Commonwealth v. Benson (1980), Commonwealth v. Wright (1971)
3 federal appellate · 21 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. Kloiber · Haas v. Kasnot · Risbon v. Cottom · Steel v. Snyder · Lyke v. Lehigh Valley Railroad
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where evidence which would properly be part of a case is within the control of the party whose interest it would naturally be to produce it, and, without satisfactory explanation he fails to do so, the jury may draw an inference that it would be unfavorable to him.”
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.