269 Pa. Super. 279 - Commonwealth v. Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2021 · most notably 283 Pa. Super. 21 - Commonwealth v. Ferrer (1980), 311 Pa. Super. 569 - Commonwealth v. Speller (1983)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Wiegand v. Wiegand · Commonwealth v. Ilgenfritz · State v. Gunzelman · State v. Schweppe · 312 F. Supp. 1119 - Armstrong v. Ellington
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of this section is to impose criminal liability on persons who make threats which seriously impair personal security or public convenience. It is not intended to penalize mere spur of the moment threats which result from anger.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If you don't want to send anybody down here, I have a .30-30 rifle and I'll come up there and blow that son of a bitch's head off.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re BR
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.