Commonwealth v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently July 1991 · most notably Commonwealth v. Buehl (1986), Commonwealth v. Hilliard (1977)
34 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 Ex Rel. Butler v. Rundle · Commonwealth v. Sisak · Commonwealth v. Henderson · Commonwealth v. Lawrence · Commonwealth v. Ewing
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . that a party whose requested point, although erroneous, alerts the trial judge to an important issue in the case, does have just cause for complaint if the law to which that point pertains is not otherwise correctly stated in the charge.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Initially, we are guided by the rule that“[a] demurrer is properly granted only if the prosecution’s evidence, including those reasonable inferences which may be drawn from it, is insufficient to support a jury’s finding that the defendant was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.” Commonwealth v. Mitchell, 460 Pa. 665, 671-72 , 334 A.2d 285, 288 (1975).”
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.