Commonwealth v. Vailes’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Ciummei v. Commonwealth (1979), Blaisdell v. Commonwealth (1977)
52 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 Dusky v. United States · Pate v. Robinson · Lawrence Metze v. New York · V. P. Serodino, Inc. v. United States · Bishop v. United States
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficient present ability to consult with his lawyer * with a reasonable degree of rational understanding and ... a rational as well as factual understanding of the proceedings against him.”
2 later decisions 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.