Commonwealth v. Roberts’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
October 1999
most recently cited
30 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Rideau v. Louisiana · Commonwealth v. Kichline · Commonwealth v. Yount · Commonwealth v. McCusker
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]t the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was labouring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing, or if he did know it that he did not know what he was doing was wrong.”
2 later decisions 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.