Commonwealth v. Cook’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 district · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Commonwealth v. Grandison (2001), Commonwealth v. Williams (1996)
2 district · 57 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 Jackson v. Virginia · United States v. Mendenhall · Florida v. Bostick · California v. Hodari D. · City of Revere v. Massachusetts General Hospital
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Because the felony of unarmed robbery is not inherently dangerous to human life, i.e., it can be committed without a foreseeable risk to human life, the Commonwealth must show that the defendant committed the felony with conscious disregard for human life before it may be used as a basis for a felony-murder conviction. In contrast, felony-murder based on a felony which is inherently dangerous to human life does not require a showing of conscious disregard for human life because the risk is implicit in the intent required for the felony, e.g., armed robbery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““In order to support a theory of withdrawal or abandonment of a joint venture, ‘there must be at least an appreciable interval between the alleged termination and [the commission of the crime], a detachment from the enterprise before the [crime] has become so probable that it cannot reasonably be stayed, and such notice or definite act of detachment that other principals in the attempted crime have opportunity also to abandon it.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“it is apparent that the prosecutor was attempting ... merely to suggest that the jury rely on common experience and common sense in reaching their verdicts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Ward
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.