437 Pa. Super. 258 - Commonwealth v. Berryman’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently March 2026 · most notably Orson, Inc. v. Miramax Film Corp. (1996), 444 Pa. Super. 206 - Commonwealth v. Lopez (1995)
5 federal appellate · 83 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
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 1202 · 18 U.S.C. § 922 (Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act) · 18 U.S.C. § 924 · 28 U.S.C. § 515
Relies on Wolff v. McDonnell · United States v. Nixon · Grayned v. City of Rockford · Hoffman Estates v. Flipside, Hoffman Estates, Inc. · Connally v. General Construction Co.
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'where a section of a statute contains a given word, the omission of such word from a similar section of the statute shows a different legislative intent,'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) The occasion and necessity for the statute. (2) The circumstances under which it was enacted. (3) The mischief to be remedied. (4) The object to be attained. (5) The former law, if any including other statutes upon the same or similar subjects. (6) The consequences of a particular interpretation. (7) The contemporaneous legislative history. (8) Legislative and administrative interpretations of such statute.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“strict construction does not require that the intent of legislature be disregarded. Further, language which is capable of more than one meaning can be clear and unmistakable in the context of its usage by the selection of the meaning which is neither forced nor strained. It is only when a statute has two reasonable constructions, the construction which operates in favor of the defendant’s liberty must be applied, not the construction supported by the greatest reason.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Lynn
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.