Commonwealth v. Pierce’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
6 district · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Sanna (1997), Commonwealth v. Acevedo (2006)
6 district · 45 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. Walden · Commonwealth v. Bianco · Commonwealth v. Sires · Commonwealth v. Bianco · Commonwealth v. Lawrence
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““There are two aspects of involuntary manslaughter. Commonwealth v. Sneed, 413 Mass. 387 , 393 n.4 (1992). One aspect involves wanton and reckless conduct causing death. Id. The other concerns an unintentional killing resulting from a battery not amounting to a felony which the defendant knew or should have known endangered human life. Commonwealth v. Fitzmeyer, 414 Mass. 540, 547 (1993). An instruction on involuntary manslaughter is required where any view of the evidence will permit a finding of manslaughter and not murder. Commonwealth v. Sires, 413 Mass. 292, 301 (1992). When it is obvious, however, that the risk of physical harm to the victim created a plain and strong likelihood that death will follow, an instruction on involuntary manslaughter is not required. Commonwealth v. Fitzmeyer, supra at 547 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it was not the type of behavior that would provoke a reasonable person into a homicidal response.”
1 later decision 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.