Compton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably State v. Goode (1995), Clay v. Commonwealth (2001)
46 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 Smith v. Commonwealth · Kirkpatrick v. Commonwealth · Grasty v. Tanner · Strawderman v. Commonwealth · Ramsey 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.
“`cannot be determined intelligently merely from the deductions made and inferences drawn on the basis of ordinary knowledge, common sense, and practical experience gained in the ordinary affairs of life'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“where the facts and circumstances shown in evidence are such that men of ordinary intelligence are capable of comprehending them, forming an intelligent opinion about them, and drawing their own conclusions,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“where `the jury, or the court trying a case without a jury, is confronted with issues'”
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.