Commonwealth v. Tyrrell’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
73 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 75 later decisions — most recently June 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. O'SEARO (1976), Commonwealth v. Walzack (1976)
73 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. Kloiber · State v. Lucas · Commonwealth v. Kravitz · Commonwealth v. Bolish · Commonwealth v. Novak
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 75 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““All murder which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration of, or attempting to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, burglary, or kidnapping, shall be murder in the first degree. All other kinds of murder shall be murder in the second degree. . . .” Act of June 24, 1939, P.L. 872, § 701, formerly 18 P.S. § 4701. 1”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“As a result Dr. Coleman determined that the defendant was psychotic since teen age [*] and that he was so emotionally upset on March 7, 1960, that `he would react to an impulse to pick up a loaded shotgun resting at his elbow and fire it at his wife, and that at that time he had no intent to take his wife's life.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.