Cates v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2005
12 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 Enfield Toll Bridge Co. v. Hartford & New-Haven Rail-Road · Benton v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Cooper · Stuart 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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On an indictment for felony, the jury may find the accused not guilty of the felony, but guilty of an attempt to commit such felony; and a general verdict of not guilty upon such indictment shall be a bar to a subsequent prosecution for an attempt to commit such felony.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Franklin“intention to commit a felony, and the doing of some act toward its commission, without actually committing it, is an attempt”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Franklin
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.