Jackson v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
June 1952
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. Commonwealth · Frasure v. Commonwealth · Fletcher v. Commonwealth · Barton v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Saylor
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is often that the commonwealth is not able to produce an eyewitness to a crime, and the story of the defendant goes uncontradicted by verbal testimony. But, where he admits the homicide and undertakes to justify it and there are circumstances tending to disprove the defendant’s story, the case is one for the jury.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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