Commonwealth v. Redline’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
27 federal appellate · 232 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 279 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably Webb v. Zern (1966), Ayala v. Philadelphia Board of Public Education (1973)
27 federal appellate · 232 state decisions — followed in 29 states
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. Drum · Commonwealth v. Bolish · People v. Ferlin · Commonwealth v. Lowry · Commonwealth v. Almeida
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 279 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the thing which is imputed to a felon for a killing incidental to his felony is malice and not the act of killing.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tyson v. People · State v. Main“* * * until the decision of this court in Commonwealth v. Almeida, supra, in 1949, the rule which was uniformly followed, whether by express statement or by implication, was that in order to convict for felony-murder, the killing must have been done by the defendant or by an accomplice or confederate or by one acting in furtheranee of the felonious undertaking, [ 137 A.2d 472 at p. 476 .] (Emphasis added.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the homicide was justifiable and, obviously, could not be availed of, on any rational legal theory, to support a charge of murder. How can anyone, no matter how much of an outlaw he may be, have a criminal charge lodged against him for the consequences of the lawful conduct of another person?”
4 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.