Commonwealth v. Bechtel’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently July 1982 · most notably Commonwealth v. Scoleri (1960), Commonwealth Ex Rel. Finken v. Roop (1975)
3 federal appellate · 26 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. Iacobino · Commonwealth v. Scovern · Commonwealth v. Patskin · Commonwealth v. Jackson · Watson Appeal
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . . Inquiries into the mental health or sanity of a prisoner whether made before trial or after conviction and before sentence are `to inform the conscience of the judge'.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Moon
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.