Brown v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently March 2017
1 federal appellate · 9 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 Jewell v. Commonwealth · Mishler v. Commonwealth
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although you might otherwise find the defendant guilty of murder under Instruction [y] or first degree manslaughter under Instruction [z], if at the time he killed X (if he did so) he was so drunk that he did not have the intention of committing a crime, you shall find him not guilty under those instructions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If it is to be submitted and the mass of evidence on the' subject is to have any comprehensible meaning to the jury it must be accompanied by an instruction in substantially the following form.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mabe v. Commonwealth
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.