Commonwealth v. Petrillo’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
7 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably State v. Moore (1969), Commonwealth v. Baker (1992)
7 federal appellate · 70 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 Hallinger v. Davis · Commonwealth v. Fugmann · Commonwealth. v. Garramone · Commonwealth v. Danz · Commonwealth v. Shawell
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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ Tt may be stated as the general rule that the death, disqualification or absence of a judge will not deprive the surviving or remaining judges of authority to hold court and transact the business of the court. . . .’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The proceeding to determine the degree of the crime of murder after a plea of guilty is not a trial: Com. v. Shawell, supra [ 325 Pa. 497 ]; People v. Chew Lan Ong, 141 Cal. 550 , 75 Pac. 186 ; and State v. Almy (N. H.), 28 Atl. 372 .” The Supreme Court also said (p. 43) : “But though the Constitution guarantees to a defendant charged with crime a trial by jury, he may waive trial by jury and plead guilty. The Act of March 31, 1860, P. L. 382, so providing in murder cases is not repugnant to the constitutional provision that ‘trial by jury shall be as heretofore and the right thereof remain inviolate.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Commonwealth v. Ashe
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.