Commonwealth v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently July 2019
18 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. Helfant · Commonwealth v. Young · Commonwealth v. Burke · Commonwealth v. Bryant · Commonwealth v. Williams
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a push or a binding of hands, undertaken without consent”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Whether a criminal act occurred within the territorial boundaries of the Commonwealth, and thus whether the Commonwealth has jurisdiction over the individual charged with that act, is a question of fact to be settled by proof.' ... As such, it is an issue entrusted to the deliberative process of the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If a mortal wound is given, or if other violence or injury is inflicted ... in any county of the commonwealth, by means whereof death ensues without the commonwealth, the homicide may be prosecuted and punished in the county where the act was committed.”
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.