Gagne v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 1997
5 federal appellate · 1 district · 15 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 Mullaney v. Wilbur · Patterson v. New York · Hankerson v. North Carolina · Commonwealth v. Stokes · Commonwealth v. Rodriguez
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judge does not violate constitutional principles of due process by advising the jury that, if they think it reasonable, they may infer the existence of malice from the fact, proved beyond a reasonable doubt, that a defendant shot the victim, stabbed him, or otherwise harmed him with a deadly weapon.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. Maloney“in its entirety to determine whether the constitutional requirements have been met.” But we would”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“without justification, excuse or extenuation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gagne v. Meachum
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.