Salisbury v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently December 2015
21 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 Echert v. United States · McQueen v. Commonwealth · Harris v. Commonwealth · Kinder v. Commonwealth · Howard v. Commonwealth
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Were the rule otherwise, the state would be precluded from proving the commission of a crime that is by nature heinous and repulsive. . . . Where the photographs revealed nothing more than the scene of the crime and the persons of the victims, they were not incompetent [citations omitted]."”
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.