O'Boyle v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1901
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently September 2000
24 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 People v. . Molineux · Insurance Company v. Mosley · People of the State of N.Y. v. . Davis · Commonwealth v. Holmes · Cluverius 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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Did they ever have any difficulty before (meaning the deceased and the prisoner at the bar), and what were (sic) the nature of those difficulties, if they had any?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Yes, sir; I saw them have a difficulty a good while before this. He kicked her and beat her once when she lived at my sister's house last year.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In 3 Russel on Crimes (9th ed.) 288, it is said:”
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.