Commonwealth v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently August 2020
18 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 Morissette v. United States · Staples v. United States · Commonwealth v. Mayfield · Commonwealth v. Busanet · Commonwealth v. Robinson
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Culpability required unless otherwise provided. — When the culpability sufficient to establish a material element of an offense is not prescribed by law, such element is established if a person acts intentionally, knowingly or recklessly with respect thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“not to be disregarded under the pretext of pursuing its spirit.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Com. v. AWC
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.