Commonwealth v. Shapiro’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Scott (1981), 317 Pa. Super. 41 - Commonwealth v. Luther (1983)
32 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. Tabb · Commonwealth v. Moore · Commonwealth v. Clinton · Commonwealth v. Stoner · Commonwealth v. Zimmerman
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a case ... where intent and credibility are decisive factors leading to either acquittal or conviction, the accused's reputation is of paramount importance. Indeed, evidence of good character may, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, raise a reasonable doubt in the minds of the jury.”
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.