Commonwealth v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 105 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 110 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Reilly v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (1985), Commonwealth v. Darush (1983)
2 federal appellate · 105 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 Ungar v. Sarafite · Offutt v. United States · Mayberry v. Pennsylvania · Taylor v. Hayes · Commonwealth Coatings Corp. v. Continental Casualty 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 110 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“necessarily becomes emotionally involved in the services. . . . To expect this profound emotional impact to dissipate quickly, particularly when it is recalled at the trial of the deceased's alleged murderer, is contrary to common experience.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“the record establishes that appellant may have suffered actual prejudice when the trial court imposed sentence,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the most severe penalties the judge could impose for these offenses,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.