Commonwealth v. Kosh’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 81 later decisions — most recently March 2010 · most notably 64 Cal. 2d 159 - Ballard v. Superior Court of San Diego County (1966), State v. Butler (1958)
2 federal appellate · 2 district · 75 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 District of Columbia v. Armes · Commonwealth v. Bubnis · Commonwealth v. Scovern · People v. Enright · Alexander 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 81 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The general rule is that a lunatic or a. person affected with insanity is admissible as a witness if he has sufficient understanding to apprehend the obligation of an oath, and to be capable of giving a correct account of the matters which he has seen or heard in reference to the questions at issue . . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ware
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.