Engler v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2008
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Pace 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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Perkins was coming toward him with a knife in his hand and, having been cut by someone once before on another occasion, he was `scared,' `afraid he was going to stab me.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.