Commonwealth v. Vanderpool’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
2 district · 113 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 117 later decisions — most recently June 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Tavares (1982), Commonwealth v. Harrington (1980)
2 district · 113 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 People v. Carmen · Commonwealth v. Welansky · Commonwealth v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. Mutina · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 117 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In deciding whether a manslaughter instruction is supported by the evidence, all reasonable inferences must be resolved in favor of the defendant,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Pina“on a hypothesis not supported by the evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Pina
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.