Commonwealth v. Wojdak’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 141 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 150 later decisions — most recently January 2022 · most notably United States v. Pungitore (1990), Robert Stewart v. Lynne Abraham (2001)
5 federal appellate · 141 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 Leary v. United States · Turner v. United States · Eisenstadt v. Baker · Commonwealth v. Farquharson · Commonwealth v. Shaffer
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 150 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such that if presented at the trial in court, and accepted as true, the judge would be warranted in letting the trial go to the jury.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Offense defined. — A person is guilty of aggravated assault if he: (1) attempts to cause serious bodily injury to another, or causes such injury intentionally, knowingly or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life; ****** (4) attempts to cause or intentionally or knowingly causes bodily injury to another with a deadly weapon----”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidentiary inferences, like criminal presumptions, are constitutionally infirm unless the inferred fact is more likely than not to flow from the proved fact on which it is made to depend. When the inference allowed is tenuous ly connected to the facts proved by the Commonwealth, due process is lacking.”
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.