Timmons v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Clozza v. Commonwealth (1984), Inge v. Commonwealth (1976)
3 federal appellate · 32 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 Newberry v. Commonwealth · Day v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth · Harlow v. Commonwealth · Rees 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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant was represented by able and competent counsel both in the trial court and in this Court. In the trial court, it was sought to show that he was insane, and much of the evidence, as we have seen, was brought out in answer to questions propounded by defendant’s counsel, and admitted on that issue. He cannot be allowed to take advantage of his claim in the trial court that evidence of his condition at the time of the killing showed that he was insane, and now on appeal be permitted to successfully contend that the admission of such evidence was erroneous and prejudicial to him.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Timmons v. Peyton
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.