Commonwealth v. Goins’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Gribble (1997), Commonwealth v. Holcomb (1985)
64 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 Local 408, International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. National Labor Relations Board · Commonwealth v. Zettlemoyer · Zettlemoyer v. Pennsylvania · Commonwealth v. Simon · Commonwealth v. Beasley
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(9) The defendant has a significant history of felony convictions involving the use or threat of violence to the person. [[Image here]] (11) The defendant has been convicted of another murder committed in any jurisdiction and committed either beforé or at the time of the offense at issue.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Any instrument for the payment of money even though it is not negotiable but does not include money.” 13 Pa.C.S. § 4104(a). The term is more broadly defined than Article 3’s “Instrument,” which means: "A negotiable instrument,” 13 Pa.C.S. § 3102(a), but both terms include the checks involved here. See 13 Pa.C.S. § 3104(b)(2). 4 . The apparent reason the Pennsylvania legislature substituted "item”, for "item(s)” in its version of the Uniform Commercial Code was that section 32 of the Statutory Construction Act of 1937, applicable at the time of enactment of the Code, provided: “The singular shall include the plural, and the plural, the singular.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the evidence fails to support the finding of an aggravating circumstance specified in subsection (d).”
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.