Bass v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — 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 Powell v. Commonwealth · Billings v. Commonwealth · Gilliland v. Commonwealth · Herd v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. McIntosh
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The orthodox policy was for the judge to decide the issue as to the voluntariness of a confession and, according to Wigmore, it was an error of policy for several reasons to permit the jury to determine the admissibility of evidence merely because the admissibility depended on a question of fact.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Karl v. Commonwealth““ * * * voluntary nature of a confession and its admissibility in evidence * * * where there was an issue as to the voluntariness of a confession the question of fact should be submitted to the jury”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Karl v. Commonwealth
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.