Pelfrey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1997
19 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 Jones v. Commonwealth · Maulding v. Commonwealth · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Cornett v. Commonwealth · Hunn 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.
““It is further insisted that the court erred in failing to define the word ‘reckless,’ as used in instruction given by the court. It has been repeatedly held by this court that a failure to define such terms as ‘reckless,’ ‘gross,’ and ‘wanton,’ when used in instructions in criminal cases, is not a reversible error. It follows that the court did not err in failing to define these terms.” (Citing cases.)”
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.