Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently June 2015
2 federal appellate · 21 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 Noble v. State · Commonwealth v. West · Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. Matthews · Barnes v. Commonwealth · Martin 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Q. 16. Didn’t she (Jannie Brewster) ask you what the reason was for the shooting and you said there that James Jackson had shot and killed a man up there, and at the same time you said, he had a crazy spell on then the same as he did a fezv days before when he shot you?" (Our emphasis.)”
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.