Curtis v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Sanborn v. Commonwealth (1988), Montgomery v. Commonwealth (1991)
33 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 Hargis v. Commonwealth · Parrish v. Commonwealth · Hunn v. Commonwealth · Wheeler v. Commonwealth · Greer 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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“by the instructions to give to the accused the opportunity for the jury to determine the merits of any lawful defense which he has.”
2 later decisions 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.