Commonwealth v. Wheeler’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2010
10 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 Manson v. Brathwaite · Pauling v. McElroy · United States v. McCoy · Commonwealth v. Martin · Commonwealth ex rel. Ryan v. Banmiller
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““THE CRIER: * * * In Bill of Information Number 1467 of March 1979 the defendant, James Wheeler, is charged with murder. To this Bill of Information how do you find the defendant? JUROR NO. 9: Well, I have to tell the truth. I can’t say the man is guilty, but with all the evidence I have to say he’s guilty. THE COURT: Just tell us what you say. THE CRIER: How do you find the defendant? JUROR NO. 9: Well— THE CRIER: May I read the bill back? THE COURT: Yes, read it back. THE CRIER: In Bill of Information Number 1467 of March 1979 the defendant, James Wheeler, is charged with murder. To this Bill of Information how do you find the defendant? JUROR NO. 9: Well, all the evidence points to him so— THE COURT: Just tell us what is your verdict. Is it guilty or not guilty? JUROR NUMBER 9: Guilty. THE CRIER: Is your verdict guilty or not guilty? JUROR NUMBER 9: I’ll say guilty. THE CRIER: To what degree? JUROR NUMBER 9: First degree.””
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.