2003 Pa. Super. 440 - Commonwealth v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2023
1 federal appellate · 3 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. Hardcastle · Commonwealth v. Jarman · 431 Pa. Super. 453 - Commonwealth v. Swerdlow · 431 Pa. Super. 125 - Commonwealth v. Swann · 400 Pa. Super. 79 - Commonwealth v. Hudgens
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the real issue [i]s whether the Commonwealth presented sufficient evidence to establish the required mens rea, not whether [Appellant] made the statements in the context of a heated discussion. Being angry does not render a person incapable of forming the intent to terrorize.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The purpose of [section 2706 ] is to impose criminal liability on persons who make threats which seriously impair personal security or public convenience. It is not intended by this section to penalize mere spur-of-the-moment threats which result from anger.”
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.