Commonwealth v. Pavillard’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 1995 · most notably Commonwealth v. Jones (1974), Commonwealth v. Hoffman (1970)
5 federal appellate · 52 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. Frazier · Commonwealth v. Frazier · Commonwealth v. Yeager · Commonwealth v. Miller · Commonwealth v. Meas
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the instant case there was absolutely no evidence of legal passion or provocation such as to reduce the crime from murder to voluntary manslaughter. That being so, this Court has consistently and wisely held that the trial Judge is not required to charge the jury on the issue of voluntary manslaughter. A charge on a point or issue which is unsupported by any evidence is likely to confuse the jury and obstruct Justice.”
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.