Commonwealth v. Graham’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Commonwealth Ex Rel. Butler v. Rundle (1968), Commonwealth v. Gockley (1963)
51 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 Lisenba v. People of State of California · Stein v. People of State of New York Wissner · Crooker v. State of California · Lyons v. State of Oklahoma · Commonwealth v. Spardute
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“By the same token, the law does not require the coddling of those accused of crime. One such need not be protected against his own innate desire to unburden himself.”
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.