Clozza v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 119 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Dufour v. Mississippi (1985), Gray v. Commonwealth (1987)
9 federal appellate · 103 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 Adams v. Texas · LeVasseur v. Commonwealth · Stamper v. Commonwealth · Stockton v. Commonwealth · Levasseur v. Wainwright
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 119 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he intention to kill need not exist for any specified length of time prior to the actual killing.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“her from behind and putting his hand over her mouth and on her arm. He forced her behind a trailer home and told her to remove her coat and shirt. She complied, and he struck her several times. She began to bleed about the mouth. He told her to remain quiet. He forced her to walk through the residential area to the edge of the field. There he ordered her to remove her coat again and her bra. He struck her three times after she followed his directions. He said that she was”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clozza v. Murray“She died as a result of shock from bleeding and aspiration of some of the blood; that is, bleeding into the windpipe, swallowing, inhaling the blood into the windpipe and bleeding and shock and hemorrhaging resulting from blunt-force blows about the head and face.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Clozza 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.