People v. Richards’s Empirical Analysis
1849
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently November 1992
1 federal appellate · 17 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 Commonwealth v. Knowlton · Commonwealth v. Kingsbury
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In every case that can be adduced of a conspiracy, the offense depends upon the unlawful agreement, and not on the act which follows it; the latter is but the evidence of the former. * * * In 3 Chitty’s Criminal Law (5th Am. Ed.), p. 1141, it is said, that to render the offense complete, there is no occasion that any act should be done in pursuance of the unlawful agreement entered into between the parties; still less can it be necessary to show that any party was actually defrauded; for the conspiracy is the essence of the charge, and, if that be proved, the defendant will be convicted. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Warsop v. Cole
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.