Commonwealth v. Gross’s Empirical Analysis
1938
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
March 1982
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Simmons v. Commonwealth · Bennett v. Commonwealth · Blanton v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Remley
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[B]oth shot ... in one encounter. The law will not stop, in such a case, to measure which wound is the more serious, and to speculate upon which actually caused the death....”
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.