Commonwealth v. Rose’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently October 2015 · most notably 603 So. 2d 412 - Ex Parte Haney (1992), Slaughter v. Commonwealth (1987)
25 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 Smith v. State · United States v. Barker · Lantrip v. Commonwealth · Ford v. Commonwealth · Koester 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“tends to explain why a person suffering from the syndrome would not leave her mate and would be driven by fear of continuing episodes of increased aggression against herself to perceive certain conduct was necessary in her self-defense, even though another person not suffering from such a condition might believe or behave differently.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage““Notwithstanding the language in Gray , there may be, as there is in this case, evidence supporting either view, self-defense or wantonness, depending on how the jury should view the evidence. ... Very often, as in this case, the fact of killing is unambiguous but the accused’s mental state at the time of the killing presents a mixed picture.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The need for self-defense must be viewed subjectively from the standpoint of the accused, not objectively from the standpoint of a reasonable person. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.