Warlitner v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently April 2012
5 federal appellate · 10 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Hodge 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.
“every unlawful homicide is presumed to be murder in the second degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Baker v. Muncy“may infer malice from the deliberate use of a deadly weapon.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“impose upon the accused any burden of persuasion.”
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.