Pendleton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. English (1999), Getz v. State (1988)
2 federal appellate · 51 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 State v. Wilcox · Jones v. Commonwealth · Buckler v. Commonwealth · Ware v. Commonwealth · Russell 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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[N]o evidence is admissible to show `lustful inclination.'”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“An opinion as to whether the accused had the ability or propensity to commit such an act is improper because it is an opinion on the ultimate fact, that is, innocence or guilt. Consequently it invades the proper province of the jury. Such an opinion is not evidence of mental condition but is a factual conclusion of the witness on the ultimate issue before the jury which can be reached only by consideration of all the facts.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“a common and continuing pattern of conduct on the part of the accused.”
2 later decisions 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.