Commonwealth v. Peterman’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 70 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 80 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably 45 Cal. 3d 386 - People v. Odle (1988), Gardner v. State (1978)
6 federal appellate · 70 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. Williams · 17 Ala. App. 674 - Dennison v. State · Commonwealth v. Patrick · Commonwealth v. Butler · Commonwealth v. Heller
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 80 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a jury, in order to refresh their recollection, requests a reading of a portion of the testimony actually given at the trial, it is a matter within the discretion of the trial court whether to grant such request. If the trial court does grant the request, the review of testimony must be conducted in open court in the presence of parties and their counsel and, if the resultant review does not place undue emphasis on one witness’ testimony, no reversible error is committed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“where evidence of prior conviction is introduced to show a criminal disposition or the likelihood defendant committed the crime whereof he is being tried: “As a general rule, at common law, on a prosecution for a particular crime, a distinct crime unconnected with that laid in the indictment cannot be given in evidence against a prisoner as substantive proof of the crime for which he is being tried.” . . . Commonwealth v. Williams, 307 Pa. 134, 147-149 , 160 A. 602 (1932).”
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.