Commonwealth v. Caye’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
58 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2010 · most notably Commonwealth v. O'SEARO (1976), Commonwealth v. Rodgers (1977)
58 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 Commonwealth v. Colandro · Commonwealth v. Boyd · Commonwealth v. Wrona · Commonwealth v. Carroll · Commonwealth v. Carbonetto
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When an individual commits an act of gross recklessness for which he must reasonably anticipate that death to another is likely to result, he exhibits that “wickedness of disposition, hardness of heart, cruelty, recklessness of consequences, and a mind regardless of social duty” which proved that there was at that time in him “the state or frame of mind termed malice.””
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.