Commonwealth v. Sleighter’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably Merkle v. Upper Dublin School District (2000), 21 Cal. 4th 935 - People v. Tufunga (1999)
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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. Bastone · Commonwealth v. English
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n these days when crime is rampant and disobedience and defiance of Law and Order are so widespread, it would be folly to permit a person who has an adequate remedy at law to take the law into his own hands____ No matter how worthy ... any person’s objective may be, Law and Order must be preserved.”
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.