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2016 Pa. Super. 242 - Commonwealth v. Yale’s Empirical Analysis

2016

Citation profile

2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
May 2024
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Feingold v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Downey v. Weston · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Hairston · 339 Pa. Super. 15 - Feingold v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[O]ur standard of review when considering the denial of jury instructions is one of deference-an appellate court will reverse a court's decision only when it abused its discretion or committed an error of law.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “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.