273 Pa. Super. 586 - Commonwealth v. Gilliam’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 367 Pa. Super. 333 - Commonwealth v. Bolden (1987), 312 Pa. Super. 435 - Commonwealth v. Chance (1983)
2 federal appellate · 25 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 Patterson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Eagan · 269 Pa. Super. 544 - Commonwealth v. Williams · 259 Pa. Super. 204 - Commonwealth v. Crowley · 245 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Markle
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he substantial step test broadens the scope of attempt liability by concentrating on the acts the defendant has done and does not any longer focus on the acts remaining to be done before the actual commission of the crime.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A person commits an attempt when, with the intent to commit a specific crime, he does any act which constitutes a substantial step toward the commission of that crime.”
2 later decisions 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.