Commonwealth v. Kyslinger’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently June 2006
6 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 v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Mutnik · Commonwealth v. Kenny
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a] trial court may not refuse to charge the jury on the elements of a defense, where the defense is supported by evidence in the record. . . . Where there is evidence to support a claimed defense, it is `for the trier of fact to pass upon that evidence and improper for the trial judge to exclude such consideration by refusing the charge.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well established that, under 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 4105, supra, the legislature intended to denominate the passing of a check for which there are insufficient funds, where the insufficiency is within the knowledge of the issuer, as a crime regardless of whether the issuer possessed a specific intent to defraud. Commonwealth v. Mutnik, 486 Pa. 428 , 406 A.2d 516 (1979).”
1 later decision 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.