Commonwealth v. Hebert’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. Henson (1985), Commonwealth v. Campbell (1979)
3 federal appellate · 45 state decisions — followed in 13 states
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. Peaslee · Thrasher v. United States Liability Insurance · Commonwealth v. Martin · 86 Ill. App. 2d 480 - People v. Weeks · People v. Lilley
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n intent to kill may exist when one intends only such killing as amounts to manslaughter.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Holbron
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.