Gibson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1946
9 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 Johnston v. Commonwealth · Hayes v. Commonwealth · Gordon v. Commonwealth · Gillis v. Commonwealth · McDaniel 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury could not have taken the commonwealth’s testimony about these witnesses in any other light than in deciding whether any credit was to be given their testimony or not, and the admonition insisted upon by the appellant, If given, would not have brought this issue any more sharply.;to the jury’s mind. ””
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.