Commonwealth v. Gable’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently June 2003 · most notably Commonwealth v. Simmons (1948), Commonwealth v. Mutina (1975)
5 federal appellate · 35 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. Parker · Commonwealth v. Edwards · Commonwealth v. Weston · Commonwealth v. Stabinsky · Commonwealth v. Cicere
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The third question involves the proposition that, in a homicide case, where the defense is insanity, the trial judge must state, when requested to do so, that if the verdict is not guilty by reason of insanity, it will be his duty to send the defendant to a state institution for the insane. With this the jury has nothing to do and it was not error to refuse to so tell them.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether the court below erred in failing to instruct the jury concerning the consequences of a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Geschwendt v. Ryan
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.