Commonwealth v. Gricus’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2013 · most notably Fisher v. United States (1946), Commonwealth v. Mahnke (1975)
3 federal appellate · 64 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. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Commonwealth v. Madeiros · Commonwealth v. McCan · Commonwealth v. Pierce
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(R)educed to its lowest terms, 'malice' in murder, means knowledge of such circumstances that according to common experience there is a plain and strong likelihood that death will follow the contemplated act, coupled perhaps with an implied negation of any excuse or justification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McInerney v. Berman
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.