Rowe v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently December 1958 · most notably Jones v. Commonwealth (1926), Daniel's Adm'r v. Hoofnel (1941)
35 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 Westrup v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Saylor
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When it appears that a killing was unintentional; that the perpetrator acted with no wrongful purpose in doing the homicidal act; that it was done while he was engaged in a lawful enterprise; and that it was not the result of negligence, the homicide, will be excused on the score of accident. Action accompanied, not only with no intent to do harm but under a reasonable belief that no harm is possible, is clearly wanting in every essential element of crime.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Hunt v. Commonwealth
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.