Mercer v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2012
1 federal appellate · 19 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 Sims v. Commonwealth · Honesty v. Commonwealth · Muscoe v. Commonwealth · Horton v. Commonwealth · Litton 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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[pjhysical conditions of the premises where the homicide is alleged to have occurred are generally relevant. . . . [I]t naturally follows that any evidence which tends to show the manner in which the act was committed is competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Let it be once established that an officer is engaged in a lawful duty and is performing same in a lawful manner, then the law throws around him every protection to which he is entitled as a minister of justice.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pike v. Eubank
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.