2005 Pa. Super. 27 - Commonwealth v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2023
2 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 United States v. Batchelder · United States v. Batchelder · Commonwealth v. Mudrick · 437 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Berryman · 403 Pa. Super. 342 - Commonwealth v. Purcell
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another, or causes such injury purposely, knowingly or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; or (b) attempts to cause or purposely or knowingly causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“evidence of the use of force or the threat of force is not an element of the crime of aggravated assault.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another, or causes such injury ... recklessly under the circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.”
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.