307 Pa. Super. 253 - Commonwealth v. Zenyuh’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2007
16 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 v. Black · Commonwealth v. Cropper · Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Watson · McCusker v. Commonwealth
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that appellant did not reasonably believe it was necessary to kill in order to protect himself against death or serious bodily harm, or that appellant used more force than was reasonably necessary to save himself from death, great bodily harm, or the commission of a felony; (2) that appellant provoked the use of force; or, (3) that appellant had a duty to retreat and that retreat was possible with complete safety.”
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.