Pilon v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently November 2018
17 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 Fugate v. Commonwealth · United States v. May · Edwards v. Commonwealth · Marcum v. Commonwealth · Perry v. Commonwealth
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When there is no clear showing of arbitrariness or an abuse of discretion, the ruling of the trial court will not be disturbed.” Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“no evidence in this record which would justify the giving of a reckless-homicide instruction.”
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.