Commonwealth v. Andrade’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently August 2022 · most notably Commonwealth v. Wilson (1998), Commonwealth v. Acevedo (2006)
50 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 Los Angeles Unified School District v. Los Angeles NAACP · Patterson v. United States · Commonwealth v. Mello · Commonwealth v. Walden · Commonwealth v. Sires
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if there is evidence of provocation deemed adequate in law to cause the accused to lose his self-control in the heat of passion, and if the killing followed the provocation before sufficient time had elapsed for the accused's temper to cool”
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.