Pierce v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
24 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently May 2019 · most notably George v. Commonwealth (1991), Jay v. Com. (2008)
24 federal appellate · 49 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 Snyder v. Commonwealth · Mason v. Commonwealth · Butts v. Commonwealth · Ferrell v. Beddow · Wolverton v. Commonwealth
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the taking, with intent to steal, of the personal property of another, from his person or in his presence, against his will, by violence or intimidation.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“may infer the felonious intent from the immediate asportation and conversion of the property, in the absence of satisfactory countervailing evidence by the ... [defendant].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“an intent to feloniously deprive the owner permanently of his property ... [b]ut `feloniously' in this [context] simply means `with criminal intent.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.