Commonwealth v. Gould’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 111 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 125 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Cunneen (1983), Commonwealth v. Henson (1985)
12 federal appellate · 2 district · 111 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Romano v. United States · Arthur J. Nathaniel v. W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director, Texas Department of Corrections · United States v. Brawner · Luckenbach Steamship Co. v. Zim Israel Navigation 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 125 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither logic nor justice can tolerate a jurisprudence that defines the elements of an offense as requiring a mental state such that one defendant can properly argue that his voluntary drunkenness removed his capacity to form the specific intent but another defendant is inhibited from a submission of his contention that an abnormal mental condi tion, for which he was in no way responsible, negated his capacity to form a particular specific intent, even though the condition did not exonerate him from all criminal responsibility-””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he jurors' broad discretion will more accurately reflect the community's conscience, goals, and norms, if the jurors ... are also permitted to consider the defendant's peculiar mental state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“fairness requires that an impaired mind may also be considered as evidence bearing on whether or not the defendant committed the murder with extreme atrocity or cruelty.”
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.