Commonwealth v. Wireback’s Empirical Analysis
1899
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently October 1988 · most notably Fisher v. United States (1946), Commonwealth v. Lopinson (1967)
5 federal appellate · 37 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 Commonwealth v. Mosler · Commonwealth v. Farrell · Commonwealth v. Gerade · Sayres v. Commonwealth · Coyle 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . the moral guilt of one man, by reason of vicious training or inferiority of intellectual power, may be less than that of another, but the law takes no note of this in fixing responsibility for crime; nor dare it do so, if society is to be protected.””
1 later decision 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.