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Commonwealth v. Browdie’s Empirical Analysis

1996

Citation profile

48
cited by 48 later decisions
1
states following
October 2024
most recently cited

48 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently October 2024 · most notably Commonwealth v. Boczkowski (2004), Commonwealth v. Robinson (1998)

48 state decisions

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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 Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Weintraub · United States v. Peltier · Chapman v. Burton Berger & Associates · McKnight v. Commonwealth · In re the Primary Election of May 21, 1991

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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(a) General Rule — A person who kills an individual without lawful justification commits voluntary manslaughter if at the time of the killing he is acting under a sudden and intense provocation by: (1) the individual killed; or (2) another whom the actor endeavors to kill, but he negligently or accidentally causes the death of the individual killed.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Smith · Commonwealth v. Robinson
  2. “a trial court shall only instruct on an offense where the offense has been made an issue in the case and where the trial evidence reasonably would support such a verdict. Therefore, only where an instruction is requested and only if the evidence supports “heat of passion” voluntary manslaughter, is an instruction thereon required.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. Commonwealth v. Smith · 2007 Pa. Super. 342 - Commonwealth v. Patton

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.