261 Pa. Super. 109 - Commonwealth v. Trowbridge’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently November 2010 · most notably 426 Pa. Super. 362 - Commonwealth v. Sanders (1993), 288 Pa. Super. 359 - Commonwealth v. Schilling (1981)
60 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 254 Pa. Super. 295 - Commonwealth v. Holguin · 248 Pa. Super. 219 - Commonwealth v. Cunningham · 232 So. 2d 25 - Bass v. State · 244 Cal. App. 2d 121 - People v. Vaiza · 225 Pa. Super. 411 - Commonwealth v. Stokes
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person commits a misdemeanor of the second degree if he recklessly engages in conduct which places or may place another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“retains the common law assault requirement of actual present ability to inflict harm”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“From this discussion we do not mean to say that there are no circumstances under which the pointing of an unloaded gun can create a danger of death or serious bodily injury, albeit not from the projectile which would be fired if it were loaded. We think such a danger could exist where the actor points an unloaded gun and the resulting fear or apprehension of danger itself creates an actual danger of death or serious bodily harm to others, such as where a gun is pointed at a person driving a passenger-filled car at fifty miles per hour on a public highway, since the requisite danger comes from the loss of vehicular control in such a panic situation.See also Commonwealth v. Holguin, ... [254 Pa.Super.295,] 385 A.2d 1346 ([Pa.Super.] 1978) (pointing pistol into crowded bar creates significant risk that someone may retaliate with gunfire).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.