414 Pa. Super. 442 - Commonwealth v. Scullin’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2023 · most notably 437 Pa. Super. 521 - Commonwealth v. Lawson (1994), Commonwealth v. Ellis (1997)
50 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. Tuladziecki · Johnson v. COM., PA. BD. OF PROB. & PAR. · 341 Pa. Super. 468 - Commonwealth v. Drumgoole · 317 Pa. Super. 362 - Commonwealth v. Mathis · 372 Pa. Super. 145 - Commonwealth v. Felix
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]ny firearm, whether loaded or unloaded, or any device designed as a weapon and capable of producing death or serious bodily injury, or any other device or instrumentality which, in the manner in which it is used or intended to be used, is calculated or likely to produce death or serious bodily injury.”
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.