Commonwealth v. Danzy’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lewis (1991), Daellenbach v. State (1977)
23 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. Marlin · Commonwealth v. Razmus · Commonwealth v. Thomas · 158 Pa. Super. 164 - Commonwealth v. Schuster
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he time for a defendant to decide whether he wants a charge regarding his decision not to testify is before the jury retires. The charge is designed for the protection of the defendant in accordance with the Act of May 23,1887, P.L. 158, § 10, 19 P.S. § 631; and so long as the defendant does not object it is not error to give the charge, if . the charge is fairly stated. Commonwealth v. Thomas, 429 Pa. 227 , 239 A.2d 354 (1968), Commonwealth v. Schuster, 158 Pa.Super. 164 , 44 A.2d 303 (1945).”
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.