296 Pa. Super. 393 - Commonwealth v. Kidd’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2023 · most notably 362 Pa. Super. 580 - Commonwealth v. Anneski (1987), State v. Carlson (1997)
29 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 232 Pa. Super. 176 - Commonwealth v. White · 254 Pa. Super. 295 - Commonwealth v. Holguin · 268 Pa. Super. 225 - Commonwealth v. Ashford · 269 Pa. Super. 279 - Commonwealth v. Sullivan · 270 Pa. Super. 108 - Commonwealth v. Hughes
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The record evinces that his conduct expressed transitory anger rather than a settled purpose to carry out the threat or to terrorize the other person, His acts did not involve the sort of conduct that the Legislature intended to deter and punish_”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smoak v. State
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.