Pack v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 1970
16 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 Housman v. Commonwealth · Luke and Dewey Hall v. Commonwealth · Greenwell v. Commonwealth · Breeden v. Commonwealth · Coates 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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The testimony of the parties and their witnesses being in direct conflict as to the circumstances under which the defendant shot and wounded Webb, as to-whether it constituted a malicious shooting and. wounding of him or was done in a sudden affray without malice, it was for the jury to determine the-facts upon such issues.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pack v. Commonwealth““To charge a wounding simply, with intent to kill, characterizes the offense as a misdemeanor—to make it a felonious wounding, malice must be charged. (Rapp v. Commonwealth, 14 B.Mon. [614], 621, Rennaker v. The Commonwealth, unreported).””
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.