Commonwealth v. Troup’s Empirical Analysis
1930
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 1986 · most notably Commonwealth v. Samuel Jones (1946), Commonwealth v. Homeyer (1953)
42 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. Colandro · Commonwealth v. Nicely · Commonwealth v. Micuso · Commonwealth v. Green · Commonwealth v. Green
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Defendant attempted to set up an affirmative excuse, and the burden was therefore on him to establish it by the preponderance of the evidence, to be effective and justify a verdict exonerating him from responsibility. . . . Ordinarily, a defendant is entitled to an acquittal if an honest question of his guilt is engendered from any or all the evidence offered. . . . Such must arise out of evidence essential to the Commonwealth’s case, whether bearing on some isolated point or the whole of the evidence. . . . Where, however, the right to a verdict rests on defendant’s establishing by affirmative and satisfying proof some fact, it is not sufficient for him to merely raise a doubt as to its existence.””
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.