Rollins v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently February 2005 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mutina (1975), Greenfield v. Commonwealth (1974)
44 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 Jenkins v. United States · State v. Padilla · William C. Drummond v. United States of America, Alphonse Vincent Castaldi v. United States · Thompson 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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the use of the psychologist in present society is growing and with this will come an increasing tendency to call him as an expert witness on the question of mental condition”
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.