Commonwealth v. LaRue’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently December 1985 · most notably Commonwealth v. Sullivan (1977), Commonwealth v. Kravitz (1960)
5 federal appellate · 45 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. Colandro · Commonwealth v. Kluska · Commonwealth v. Sheets · Commonwealth v. Sutton · Commonwealth v. Kovovic
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Passion, as used in a charge defining manslaughter . . . means any of the emotions of the mind known as anger, rage, sudden resentment or terror, rendering the mind incapable of cool reflection”
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.