Commonwealth v. Podkowka’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
13
cited by 13 later decisions
2
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Patterson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Keizer · Commonwealth v. Robinson · Commonwealth v. Bui · 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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where there is no evidence of accident, the issue is not fairly raised and the judge need not give an accident instruction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Lugo
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.