Creighton v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1885
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.
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 defense had the undoubted right to show that the deceased, in attempting to arrest him, was acting without any authority; and that being a fact in issue, the court should have- determined the question and not the jury, as to the right of the deceased to make the arrest.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Anselmo““If the deceased was town marshal the appellant had no right to resist the arrest, but should have allowed himself to be taken charge of by the officer, and made his defense before the justice instead of taking the law into his own hands.””
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.