Gooslin v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
February 1957
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barton v. Commonwealth · Jones v. Commonwealth · Newsome v. Commonwealth · Sawyer v. Commonwealth · Lawson 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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The jury was at liberty to accept the testimony of the two boys and reject the testimony of the defendants and their witnesses.””
1 later decision 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.