Commonwealth v. Pilosky’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently August 2013 · most notably 380 Pa. Super. 619 - Commonwealth v. Smith (1988), Commonwealth v. Green (1979)
31 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 Parker v. Gladden · Commonwealth v. Bighum · Goodall-Sanford, Inc. v. United Textile Workers, A. F. L. Local 1802 · Harper & Row Publishers, Inc. v. Decker · Commonwealth v. Goosby
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“There was no [evidence] ... that [the investigator] could testify to [a] familiarity with or personal knowledge of the victim's repute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hunter v. State
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.