Garland v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2011 · most notably Maxwell v. Com. (2008), Drew v. Commonwealth (1986)
59 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 Inge v. Commonwealth · Wright v. Commonwealth · Lane v. Commonwealth · Stover v. Commonwealth · Carter 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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“all necessary circumstances proved must be consistent with guilt and inconsistent with innocence and exclude every reasonable hypothesis of innocence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]uspicion, no matter how strong, is insufficient to sustain a criminal conviction.”
2 later decisions 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.