Commonwealth v. Gaouette’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Commonwealth v. Walden · Commonwealth v. Curtis · Commonwealth v. Acevedo · Commonwealth v. Woodward · Commonwealth v. Soaris
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]here must be evidence that would warrant a reasonable doubt that something happened which would have been likely to produce in an ordinary person such a state of passion, anger, fear, fright, or nervous excitement as would eclipse his capacity for reflection or restraint, and that what happened actually did produce such a state of mind in the defendant.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Lugo“stated repeatedly that, 'when the evidence permits a finding of a lesser included offense, a judge must, upon request, instruct the jury on the possibility of conviction of the lesser crime.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. Lugo
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.