Choate v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently May 1970
17 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 Morse v. Commonwealth · McCandless v. Commonwealth · Overstreet v. Commonwealth · Hargis v. Commonwealth · Cavanaugh 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““And so it is generally held that evidence of information conveyed to the defendant by others, or obtained through his personal observation shortly before the act, is admissible if it is of such a nature as to naturally and reasonably ...affect his mental poise to an extent that it would render him irresponsible, while acting under its influence.” ./”
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.