King v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently November 2008 · most notably Sanborn v. Commonwealth (1988), Jackson v. Commonwealth (1946)
31 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 Jones v. Commonwealth · Goff v. Commonwealth · East v. Commonwealth · Mount v. Commonwealth · Colvin 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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well settled that if one operates an automobile upon the highway in such a manner as is likely to injure others using the highway and recklessly, wantonly and with gross carelessness strikes and kills another, he is guilty of voluntary manslaughter. [Citing Jones Case, supra.] This principle is based upon the theory that a man intends the natural consequences of his act and that he is aware or ought to be aware of what will result from the reckless or grossly careless operation of an automobile, which becomes a • dangerous instrumentality under such circumstances, although he actually has no intention to kill.””
2 later decisions 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.