Wooden v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently July 2013 · most notably LeVasseur v. Commonwealth (1983), Barrett v. Commonwealth (1986)
6 federal appellate · 54 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 People v. Washington · 15 Cal. 3d 79 - People v. Antick · Commonwealth v. Redline · Commonwealth v. Almeida · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Smith v. Myers
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]his appeal, then, reduces itself to the self-answering question of whether the evidence was sufficient to prove that the homicide was within the res gestae of the predicate felonies that Berkeley clearly committed.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he felony-murder statute applies where the killing is so closely related to the felony in time, place, and causal connection as to make it a part of the same criminal enterprise.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“[M]urder for purposes of the felony-murder statute is common-law murder coupled with the contemporaneous commission or attempted commission of one of the listed felonies[,]”
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.