Hickey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently September 1973 · most notably Partin v. Commonwealth (1923), Fry v. Commonwealth (1935)
40 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 Powers v. Commonwealth · Morse v. Commonwealth · Howard v. Commonwealth · Stevens v. Commonwealth · Reed 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Has no place under the facts of this case. . . . There is nothing in the testimony tending to show in the slightest degree that defendant commenced the difficulty •by shooting at the deceased, or that the meeting was the result of any mutual consent to engage in an armed conflict so as to limit the right of self-defense on the part of the defendant.””
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.