Teeters v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 1987
1 federal appellate · 8 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 Gillis v. Commonwealth · Wright v. Commonwealth · Harrison 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.
““They stated that when Teeters pulled the gun they both grabbed him. and in the scuffle all three of them fell to the ground and the gun went off. The defendant was entitled to and the court erred in not giving an instruction on accidental shooting.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. May 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.