Commonwealth v. King’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
145 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 145 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Commonwealth v. Helfant (1986), State v. DeJesus (2008)
145 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 · Oregon v. Mathiason · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Commonwealth v. Saferian · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives
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 145 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“sufficiently related in time and location to be logically probative”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“when a defendant is charged with any form of illicit sexual intercourse, evidence of the commission of similar crimes by the same parties though committed in another place, if not too remote in time, is competent to prove an inclination to commit the [acts] charged”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to establish knowledge, intent, motive, method, material to proof of the crime charged”
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.