Cook v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
December 2015
most recently cited
2 federal appellate · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Higginbotham 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one assaulted may use only such force as appears to him reasonably necessary to repel the attack”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Dillman v. Murray
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.