Commonwealth v. Rightnour’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
40
cited by 40 later decisions
2
states following
March 1981
most recently cited
8 federal appellate · 30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Witherspoon v. Illinois · Bumper v. North Carolina · Logan v. United States · Powell v. Texas · Fisher 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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Evidence that the defendant suffered from a mental disease or defect is admissible whenever it is relevant to prove that the defendant did or did not have a state of mind which is an element of the offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.