Commonwealth v. Hough’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently October 1978 · most notably Commonwealth v. Lowry (1953), Commonwealth v. Almeida (1949)
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. Samuel Jones · Commonwealth v. Doris · Commonwealth v. Sterling · Commonwealth v. Hipple · Commonwealth v. Howell
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Notwithstanding that the defendant, under the advice of able counsel, pleaded guilty to the murder for which he was indicted and throughout has conceded that it was murder in the first degree, we have reviewed both the law and the evidence in the case, [*] as we are bidden by statute to do in first degree murder cases (Act of February 15, 1870, P.L. 15, Sec. 2, 19 PS § 1187), and we find the ingredients necessary to constitute murder in the first degree to have been proven to exist.”
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.