Commonwealth v. Brewer’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1984 · most notably Commonwealth v. Polian (1934), Commonwealth v. Bishop (1896)
27 state decisions — followed in 11 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 Commonwealth v. Robinson · Commonwealth v. Preece
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘'The dying declarations of Latimer were admissible. The evidence was clear that they were made under a sense of impending death. Just. before they were made both the attending doctors had told Latimer that there was no chance of Mm recovering. His exclamation in answer, ‘Oh, my God, must I die! ’ and his later request, ‘ Give me some water, if I have got to die,’ imply an acceptance of the fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. McNair
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.