347 Pa. Super. 134 - Commonwealth v. Hathaway’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently January 2015 · most notably 374 Pa. Super. 549 - Commonwealth v. Trill (1988), 392 Pa. Super. 170 - Commonwealth v. Akers (1990)
2 federal appellate · 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 Streeter v. United States · Commonwealth v. Davis · Commonwealth v. Sparrow · Commonwealth v. Walzack · Commonwealth v. Anderson
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The single goal in permitting questioning of prospective jurors is to provide the accused with a competent, fair, impartial and unprejudiced jury. Commonwealth v. England, 474 Pa. 1 , 375 A.2d 1292 (1977). However, it is not intended to provide appellant with a better basis upon which to utilize his peremptory challenges. The inquiry should be strictly confined to disclosing qualifications or lack of qualifications and should focus on whether a juror has formed a fixed opinion as to an accused’s guilt or innocence. Id.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The diminished capacity defense assumes the defendant is sane but lacks the ability to form a specific intent to kill, and thus reduces the charge of first degree murder to third degree murder.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyers v. Gillis
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.