Mickens v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2010 · most notably Tilton v. Commonwealth (1955), Humphreys v. Commonwealth (1947)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 Hobson v. Youell · Dixon 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he trial and punishment of minor offenders follows the regular criminal procedure, modified, in certain respects, by the statutes setting up juvenile and domestic relations courts. These statutes have established a system whereby most juvenile offenders are first subjected to the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts for proceedings therein designed to subject such offenders to the supervision and control of the State in a manner in which the delinquent ways of the child will be corrected and he be made to lead a correct life.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The statute heretofore cited clearly reveals the legislative intent to leave the prosecution and punishment of a minor between 12 and 18 years of age for an aggravated offense to the discretion of a jury or of a court trying the case without a jury. If the evidence in such case establishes the aggravated nature of a. felony, then the quantum of punishment must be within the limits fixed by statute for the particular crime. When this discretion has been exercised by the lower court, this court has no authority to substitute its judgment therefor.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“. . If the accused plead not guilty, he may, with his consent and the concurrence of the Commonwealth’s attorney and of the court entered of record . . . waive a jury. In case of such waiver . . . the court shall try the case.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Fogg v. Commonwealth
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.