Commonwealth v. Guida’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 1988 · most notably Commonwealth v. Redline (1958), Commonwealth v. Bolish (1955)
30 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. Exler · Commonwealth v. Stelma · Commonwealth v. Kelly · Commonwealth v. Lessner · Commonwealth v. Morrison
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It makes no difference that [the defendant] . . . and the other conspirators could not know in advance the precise course of events that would follow when they attempted to complete their evil designs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“. . . We have held again and again that an unintentional homicide in the commission or attempted commission of a felony such as rape, burglary, or robbery was murder at common law : [*]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(Italics supplied). In applying the felony-murder statute, we have held that the malice of the initial offense attaches to whatever else the criminal may do in connection therewith.”
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.