Commonwealth v. Heller’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 80 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. Novak (1959), Commonwealth v. Woodhouse (1960)
6 federal appellate · 80 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. Drum · Commonwealth v. Williams · Commonwealth v. Samuel Jones · Ray v. Philadelphia · Howarth v. Adams Express Co.
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`An opinion is only an opinion. It creates no fact . . . . Because of this, opinion evidence is considered of a low grade and not entitled to much weight against positive testimony of actual facts.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“did not understand the nature and quality of his act or the difference between right and wrong”
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.