Gray v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently June 2025
16 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 Miller 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“B. The law presumes every man to be of sound mind until the contrary is shown by the evidence; and, before the defendant can be excused on the grounds of lack of intent and mental incapacity, the jury must believe from the evidence that the Defendant was, at the time of the acts referred to, without sufficient reason to know what he was doing or had insufficient reason to know right from wrong.”
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.