Rushing v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
August 1946
most recently cited
4 state decisions
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If you have a reasonable doubt from the evidence that defendant is not guilty as charged, you should acquit him”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wright v. People
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.