Coles v. Com.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
26
cited by 26 later decisions
2
states following
May 2019
most recently cited
26 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In the Matter of Samuel Winship · Commonwealth v. Hudson · McCain v. Commonwealth · Clozza v. Commonwealth · Essex 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an intent to kill that needs to exist only for a moment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Porter v. Com.
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.