Perricllia v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently April 2024
18 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 Yarborough v. Commonwealth · Painter v. Commonwealth · Compton v. Commonwealth · Bailey v. Commonwealth · Dodson 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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you believe that the defendant was without fault in provoking or bringing on the difficulty, and if you further believe that the defendant reasonably feared, under the circumstances as they appeared to him, that he was in danger of being killed or that he was in danger of great bodily harm, then the killing was in self defense, and you shall find the defendant not guilty.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avent v. Com.“If a defendant is even slightly at fault, the killing is not justifiable homicide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Avent v. Com.
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.