Commonwealth v. Ohle’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Reid (1994), Commonwealth v. Prosdocimo (1990)
4 federal appellate · 164 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 Richards v. United States · Rich v. United States · Commonwealth v. Bighum · Commonwealth v. McComb · Commonwealth v. Pope
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) Offense defined— A person who obtains property upon agreement, or subject to a known legal obligation, to make specified payments or other disposition, whether from such property or its proceeds or from his own property to be reserved in equivalent amount, is guilty of theft if he intentionally deals with the property obtained as his own and fails to make the required payment or disposition. The foregoing applies notwithstanding that it may be impossible to identify particular property as belonging to the victim at the time of the failure of the actor to make the required payment or disposition.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“1. The obtaining of property of another; 2. Subject to an agreement or known legal obligation upon the recipient] to make specified payments or other disposition thereof; 3. Intentional dealing with the property obtained as the defendant’s own; and 4. Failure of the defendant to make the required disposition of the property.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is established that appellate review of a trial court charge must involve a consideration of the charge as a whole to determine whether it was fair and complete. The review does not focus upon whether certain "magic words" were included in the charge. Rather, it is the effect of the charge as a whole that is controlling.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.