2007 Pa. Super. 342 - Commonwealth v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2025
5 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. LaCava · Commonwealth v. McCusker · Commonwealth v. Hall · Commonwealth v. White · Commonwealth v. Peterkin
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I’m asking you to find a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree and send a message back that [Howze] did the right thing. The system works and it’s right to come forward and tell what happened and the second message I want to send to [appellant] is to tell him he can’t get away with murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[involuntary] manslaughter charge shall be given only when requested, where the offense has been made an issue in the case, and the trial evidence reasonably would support such a verdict.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A person is guilty of involuntary manslaughter when as a direct result of the doing of an unlawful act in a reckless or grossly negligent manner...he causes the death of another person.”
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.