Allen v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently April 1976 · most notably Bolin v. Commonwealth (1925), Cavanaugh v. Commonwealth (1916)
64 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.
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““He did not say in words that he was going to die or that he would not recover, nor did any one tell him that his wounds were fatal or that he had only a short time to live; but he did say several times and to more than one person that £he was going to die,’ that ‘he was killed,’ that ‘they killed him;’ and there being no facts or circumstances tending to controvert ■ this certainty of impending death, his dying declaration was properly admitted.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.