Commonwealth v. Little’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
32
cited by 32 later decisions
1
states following
September 2019
most recently cited
2 district · 30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Harrington · Commonwealth v. Walden · Commonwealth v. Gunter · Commonwealth v. Torres · Commonwealth v. Soaris
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“would warrant a reasonable doubt that something happened [i.e., provocation] which would have been likely to produce in an ordinary person such a state of passion, anger, fear, fright, or nervous excitement as would eclipse his capacity for reflection or restraint, and that what happened actually did produce such a state of mind in the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rosado v. Allen“self-defense, if warranted by the circumstances and carried out properly, constitutes a complete defense”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“shot his handgun in the heat of passion, provoked by the above circumstances.”
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.