Commonwealth v. Dunker’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
July 2001
most recently cited
4 district · 1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Chapman v. State of California · Sandstrom v. Montana · Mullaney v. Wilbur · Rose v. Clark · United States v. Hasting
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]here the killing is caused by the intentional use of a deadly weapon — a knife, a gun are deadly weapons — malice may be inferred unless by the evidence of all the facts and circumstances it's disproved in your minds.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.