Commonwealth v. Rodgers’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently March 2007 · most notably Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer (1982), Commonwealth v. Perkins (1977)
64 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 Hamling v. United States · Roth v. United States · Miller v. California · Cooper v. State of California · Paris Adult Theatre I v. Slaton
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a multitude of decisions, this Court has ruled that in evaluating the correctness of instructions to a trial jury, the charge must be read and considered as a whole, and it is the general effect of the charge that controls. For example, see Commonwealth v. Fell, 453 Pa. 531 , 309 A.2d 417 (1973); Commonwealth v. Zapata, 447 Pa. 322 , 290 A.2d 114 (1972); Commonwealth v. Heasley, 444 Pa. 454 , 281 A.2d 848 (1971); and Commonwealth v. Franklin, 438 Pa. 411 , 265 A.2d 361 (1970). ...””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“To say the jury need expert help to decide if this material is “obscene” borders on the ridiculous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.