272 Pa. Super. 40 - Commonwealth v. Lawton’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 2024 · most notably 315 Pa. Super. 281 - Commonwealth v. Ford (1983), 333 Pa. Super. 85 - Commonwealth v. Shirey (1984)
50 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Moszczynski v. Ashe · Commonwealth v. Walker · Commonwealth v. Alexander · 265 Pa. Super. 194 - Commonwealth v. Stanley · Commonwealth v. Mangini
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“recklessly engages in conduct which places or may place another person in danger of death or serious bodily injury.”
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.