Commonwealth v. Roosnell’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently December 2008 · most notably Commonwealth v. McCan (1931), Commonwealth v. Burke (1983)
8 federal appellate · 53 state decisions — followed in 14 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 State v. Rollins · Commonwealth v. Burke · People v. McDonald · Commonwealth v. McDonald · State v. Farrar
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Forasmuch as carnal copulation with a woman childe, under the age of ten years, is a more hainous sin than with one of more years, as being more inhumane and unnatural in itself, and more perrilous to the life and well-being of the childe: it is therefore ordered by this Court, and the authority thereof, that whosoever he be shall commit or have carnal copulation with any such childe under ten years old, and be legally convicted thereof, he shall be put to death.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Rundlett““If, as all agree, [consent] is immaterial upon a charge of committing the completed act, which includes an assault, no reason, but an extremely technical one, can be urged why it should not be so upon a charge of assault with intent to commit the completed act.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Deveau
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.