Jackson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently June 1955
4 federal appellate · 18 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 Thompson v. Commonwealth · Combs 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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Looking to the substance, rather than to form, and to the merits, rather than to useless rules of procedure, this court has adhered to the doctrine of allowing the trial court at a subsequent term to correct an erroneous sentence to conform to the law and thus meet the ends of justice, rather than cling to a form or rule which obstructs justice and gives the criminal the advantage on some technical error.””
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.