Parker v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Stopher v. Commonwealth (2001), Ernst v. Commonwealth (2005)
23 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 Estelle v. McGuire · Huddleston v. United States · Kennedy v. Commonwealth · Bell v. Commonwealth · Wilson 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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]ntent may be inferred from actions because a person is presumed to intend the logical and probable consequences of his conduct, and a person's state of mind may be inferred from actions preceding and following the charged offense.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Intentionally” — A person acts intentionally with respect to a result or to conduct described by a statute defining an offense when his conscious objective is to cause that result or to engage in that conduct.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the jury could reasonably infer that the prior bad acts occurred and that [the defendant] committed such acts.”
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.