Commonwealth v. Gunter’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
8 district · 103 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 116 later decisions — most recently November 2023 · most notably Gunter v. Maloney (2002), Commonwealth v. D'Amour (1999)
8 district · 103 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 United States v. Bailey · Commonwealth v. Latimore · Johnson v. United States · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Massa v. United States
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 116 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“separate from the acts of personal violence which constitute a necessary part of the homicide itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“constituting that assault also cause the homicide, [the court] could not conclude that the felony defined in G.L. c. 265, § 18A [assault with a dangerous weapon in a dwelling house], is separate from the acts of personal violence that constitute a necessary part of the homicide itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gunter v. Maloney“where the only felony committed [apart from the murder itself] was the assault upon the victim which resulted in the death of the victim, the assault merge[s] with the killing and [cannot] be relied upon by the state as an ingredient of a 'felony murder.'”
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.