Flythe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2009
14 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 Ansell v. Commonwealth · Lawrence 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It shall be unlawful for any person to use or attempt to use any pistol . . . while committing or attempting to commit murder. . . . Violation of this section shall constitute a separate and distinct felony and any person found guilty thereof shall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of two years for a first conviction, and for a term of four years for a second or subsequent conviction under the provisions of this section.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“if two or more persons are injured by a single criminal act, this results in a corresponding number of distinct offenses.”
2 later decisions 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.