Commonwealth v. Picher’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2019
9 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. Rodriguez · Commonwealth v. Henson · Commonwealth v. Toro · Commonwealth v. Gabbidon · Commonwealth v. Austin
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“erroneous instructions to the jury on a contested element of the crime charged did create a substantial risk of a miscarriage of justice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“essential theory of the defense at trial was misidentification, not that the victims were unintentionally hit by gunfire”
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.