Commonwealth v. Coontz’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently January 1994 · most notably Commonwealth v. Kravitz (1960), Commonwealth v. Ware (1974)
36 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 Commonwealth v. Marshall · Commonwealth v. Gardner · Commonwealth v. Van Horn · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Zell 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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““[T]he position of the body on the road, the cuts on deceased’s hand and head, and the nature of the main wound on the head, are certainly consistent with crime, though ‘ they are perhaps not inconsistent with an accident. When testimony adduced points to an unlawful killing, although it may indicate as well accident or suicide, statements of one accused of the homicide then become admissible to show that there was an unlawful slaying and the accused’s connection therewith.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ballard v. State
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.