Commonwealth v. Knable’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently October 1996 · most notably Connor v. State (1961), Commonwealth v. Cooley (1975)
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. Gardner · Commonwealth v. Peyton · Morrison (Et Al.) v. Shealer · Commonwealth v. Kelly · Commonwealth v. Puntario
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Opinion rule has no application to dying declarations. The theory of that rule * * * is that, where-ever the witness can state specifically the detailed facts observed by him, the inferences to be drawn from them can equally well be drawn by the jury, so that the witness’ inferences become superfluous. Now, since the declarant is here deceased, it is no longer possible to obtain from him by questions any more detailed data than his statement may contain, and hence his inferences are not in this instance superfluous, but are indispensable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Connor v. State“To validate a dying declaration it is not necessary that the wounded man expressly say that he knows that he is dying, it suffices, if at the time the declaration is made, the declarant believed he was in fact dying and that death. . . did actually ensue.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Whether the attendant facts and circumstances of the case warrant the admission of a statement as a dying declaration is in the first instance for the court....”
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.