Commonwealth v. Critchfield’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 1999
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 Commonwealth v. Emerick · Commonwealth v. McCartney · Commonwealth v. Etzel · 213 Pa. Super. 17 - Royer Motor Vehicle Operator License Case · Yockers v. Department of Transportation
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The ‘Misdemeanor,’ of which The Vehicle Code speaks, and requires, is that which, in its commission, a ‘motor vehicle or tractor’ is employed as an integral part of the perpetration of an act of misdemeanor magnitude. The use of the ‘motor vehicle or tractor’ must be of such a nature and type that it be an integral part of the proscribed conduct. For example, the use of a ‘getaway ear’ before or after a burglary would be an obvious integral part of a Penal Code crime. (Emphasis added.) Accordingly, we will enter the following”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ ‘The cases on the subject generally require that the misdemeanor . . . must have some reasonable relation to the operation of the motor vehicle, and the use of the motor vehicle must contribute in some reasonable degree as opposed to being merely incidental to the commission of the crime.’ ” Commonwealth v. Denham, supra 596 . (Emphasis the Courts’).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether or not the automobile was an integral element in, and contributed in some reasonable degree to, the commission of the crime.”
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.