Commonwealth v. Mink’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 2007 · most notably Washington v. Glucksberg (1997), Cruzan Ex Rel. Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (1990)
3 federal appellate · 1 district · 26 state decisions — followed in 15 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 Com'th v. Bowen · Commonwealth v. Dennis
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Self-destruction is doubtless a crime of awful turpitude; it is considered in the eye of the law of equal heinousness with the murder of one by another. In this offence, it is true the actual murderer escapes punishment; for the very commission of the crime, which the the [sic] law would otherwise punish with its utmost rigor, puts the offender beyond the reach of its infliction. And in this he is distinguished from other murderers. But his punishment is as severe as the nature of the case will admit; his body is buried in infamy, and in England his property is forfeited to the King.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Quill v. Vacco
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.