Commonwealth v. Robinson’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
July 1976
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Kelly · Commonwealth v. Robinson · Commonwealth v. Ward · Commonwealth v. Dillinger · Commonwealth v. Zanine
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`such actual legal relationship between the killing and the crime committed or attempted, that the killing can be said to have occurred as a part of the perpetration of the crime, or in furtherance of an attempt or purpose to commit it.'”
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.