361 Pa. Super. 554 - Commonwealth v. Mays’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably 454 Pa. Super. 313 - Commonwealth v. Pearson (1996), Commonwealth v. Browdie (1996)
33 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · United States v. Peltier · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer · Zettlemoyer v. Pennsylvania
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is clear in this case that appellant did not suffer prejudice from the refusal of such an instruction in view of the jury's decision to ignore their right to return a verdict of second degree. There is not the slightest reason to believe that the jury would have returned a verdict of voluntary manslaughter out of sympathy or in recognition of factors that they may have deemed mitigating where these factors were not sufficiently compelling to cause them to elect the lesser alternative that was offered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[i]n the present case, the trial court instructed on first, second and third degree murder. The jury could have exercised a mercy-dispensing power and brought back a verdict of third-degree murder against [defendant]. Instead, the jury found [defendant] guilty of second-degree murder. We are therefore persuaded that [defendant] suffered no prejudice from the trial court’s denial of a request for charge on Section 2503(a), “heat of passion” voluntary manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“On February 17, 1984, appellants [Mays and codefendant, Jeffrey Bland], entered the decedent’s apartment in Philadelphia and demanded that the victim “give up the stuff.” Mays kicked him in the chest while Bland, holding a gun, threatened to kill the victim if he moved. After a continued struggle, Bland kicked the victim and Mays directed Bland to “just kill him.” Bland then shot the victim and both men fled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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