Lee v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 1965
17 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 Tolliver v. Commonwealth · Biggs v. Commonwealth · Arnett 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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This court has uniformly held instructions so-worded as to require the jury to believe from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt the facts offered in evidence as constituting defendant’s right to self-defense to be prejudicially erroneous and to require-a reversal of the judgment.””
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.