Commonwealth v. Ackerman’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently March 1993 · most notably Commonwealth v. Ohle (1983), 344 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Williams (1985)
33 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 Braunfeld v. Gibbons · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Bronaugh · Commonwealth v. Soudani
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The proper subsidiary test for determining whether one offense necessarily involves another, is whether all of the essential elements of the lesser offense are included in the greater. Stated another way, if the essential elements of crime A are also elements of crime B, and if crime A is less culpatory than crime B, then crime A is a lesser-included offense of crime B.”
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.