287 Pa. Super. 120 - Commonwealth v. Gouse’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably Singh v. Gonzales (2006), 339 Pa. Super. 428 - Commonwealth v. Pemberth (1985)
36 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 Freezer Storage, Inc. v. Armstrong Cork Co. · Commonwealth v. Meadows · Commonwealth v. Alexander · Commonwealth v. Whack · Commonwealth v. Comber
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This end has been frequently achieved by the Commonwealth in one of two ways, namely: (1) they have expressly put the accused “on notice” by specifically charging him with the less culpable offense; or, (2) they have implicitly put the accused “on notice” through the information because the proven, but uncharged, crime is a lesser included offense of the charged, but unproven, offense as a matter of law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]ttempts by physical menace to put another in fear of imminent serious bodily injury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“retains the common law assault requirement of actual present ability to inflict harm”
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.