2005 Pa. Super. 5 - Commonwealth v. Ostrosky’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently March 2025
12 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. Grant · Commonwealth v. Booth · Commonwealth v. Mudrick · 437 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Berryman · Baker v. Retirement Bd. of Allegheny Co.
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Offense defined. — A person commits an offense if he harms another by any unlawful act or engages in a course of conduct or repeatedly commits acts which threaten another in retaliation for anything lawfully done in the capacity of witness, victim, or a party in a civil matter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he maxim, expressio unius est exclusio alterius, establishes the inference that, where certain things are designated in a statute, 'all omissions should be understood as exclusions.’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Feelings of intimidation, as testified to by Mrs. Foster, fall under the rubric of feeling threatened. See e.g., William C. Burton, Burton’s Legal Thesaurus 512 (3d ed.1998). Similarly, Mr. Foster, although first finding the encounter funny, later felt threatened such that he started looking around for help and told someone to call the police. In other words, there was no evidence indicating that the victims experienced anything other than the feeling of being threatened during this one, isolated incident. The fear and intimi dation felt by the victims are, at their core, feelings that arise from being threatened. See id. (listing synonyms for threat and threatening including, inter alia, alarm, foreboding, intimidation); Webster’s Third New International Dictionary 2882 (1966) (describing words associated with “threat” such as, inter alia, coercion, annoyance, harassment, persecution, and defining, threat as, inter alia, “expression of intention to inflict loss or harm on another by illegal means and especially] by means involving coercion or duress ... ”).”
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.