Commonwealth v. Pacini’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2023
3 federal appellate · 9 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 Miranda v. United States · Commonwealth v. Martin · Eastley v. Glenn · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Reed v. Kinnik
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The action of the court [in denying a timely request to poll the jury] worked a denial of a right of the accused so fundamental as to require a retrial even though, as clearly appears from the record, the trial was otherwise markedly free from error and the jury’s verdict was fully warranted by the evidence. Yet it is better that the case be tried again than that a precedent impairing a defendant’s right to a poll of the jury be engrafted on our criminal procedure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... It is sufficient to say that no single moment is the only moment at which the motion can be entertained... .A motion to poll, be it made at the moment the verdict is first announced in court, or even if made after the verdict is affirmed and “entered” of record, is still timely so long as it is made before the jury has dispersed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the jury’s verdict reflects the conscience of each of the jurors or whether it was brought about through the coercion or domination of one of them by some of his fellow jurors or resulted from sheer mental or physical exhaustion of a juror. Commonwealth v. Martin, supra, 379 Pa. at 593 , 109 A.2d at 328 .”
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.