Stapleton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1918
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
cited 1 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
October 1979
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Honesty v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth · Lewis v. Commonwealth · Gray 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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The court further tells the jury that when a person reasonably apprehends that another intends to attack him for the purpose of killing him or doing him serious bodily harm, then such person has a right to arm himself for his own necessary self-defense.””
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.