Commonwealth v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
4 federal appellate · 2 district · 9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Paalan v. United States · Commonwealth v. McHoul · Commonwealth v. Henson · Commonwealth v. Grey · Commonwealth v. Sanna
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]rmed assault with intent to murder requires proof of assault (while armed with a dangerous weapon) and a specific intent to kill that equates with malice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“reduces the crime from assault with intent to murder to assault with intent to kill, a lesser included offense.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a defendant's intent to kill [arises] from the frailty of human nature in the face of certain 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.