Commonwealth v. Matthews’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently September 2019 · most notably 162 Wis. 2d 940 - In Interest of JAL (1991), Commonwealth v. Carrion (1990)
39 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 Dwyer v. Globe Newspaper Co. · Teamsters Local Union 657 v. Rodriguez · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Opinions of the Justices to the House of Representatives · Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An intention to inflict injury on the victim which is not justified on any lawful ground or palliated by the existence of any mitigating circumstances is malicious within the meaning of the law.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“The charge clearly informed the jurors that they should review all of the evidence, including expert testimony, when deciding whether to draw an inference of sanity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“free to accept or reject all or part of the expert testimony”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.