Commonwealth v. Casale’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 179 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 192 later decisions — most recently October 2021 · most notably Commonwealth v. Montanez (1991), Commonwealth v. Bianco (1983)
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 179 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. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Soares · Commonwealth v. Fancy · Commonwealth v. Kelley · Commonwealth v. Beckett
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 192 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]nferences drawn by the jury need only be reasonable and possible and need not be necessary or inescapable”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“knowledge or intent is a matter of fact, which is often not susceptible of proof by direct evidence, so resort is frequently made to proof by inference from all the facts and circumstances developed at the trial.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“Murder in the second degree is an unlawful killing with malice aforethought.”
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.