Compton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2005
7 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 Pendleton v. Commonwealth · Patterson 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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Dying declarations are admissible only in case of homicide, when made by the person injured touching the cause of his death, while actually in extremis, and conscious that he is so, under a sense of impending death, and without any expectation or hope of recovery.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Whether or not a dying declaration is admissible depends largely upon the mental condition of the declarant. If a man who has received a wound believes that wound to be mortal and that he will shortly die of it, his- declaration is admissible, and I know of no way in which his mental attitude can be ascertained except by what the declarant , may say and do.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Mere belief in the possibility, or even the probability, of death is not sufficient; there must be a certainty of it eventually.””
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.