Commonwealth v. Macloon’s Empirical Analysis
1869
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions (6 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 1995 · most notably Ford v. United States (1927), American Banana Company v. United Fruit Company (1909)
6 federal appellate · 1 district · 51 state decisions — followed in 22 states
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 · Waggoner v. Line · Tyler v. People · State v. Seay · Commonwealth v. Andrews
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The stroke without the death of the party stricken, nor the death without the stroke or other violence makes not the homicide or murder, for the death consummates the crime.” (1 Hale’s P. C. 425.) “It is the nature and the right of every man to move about at his pleasure, except so far as restrained by law; and whoever gives him a mortal blow assumes the risk of this, and in the view of the law, as in that of morals, takes his life wherever he happens to die of that wound.” (Commonwealth v. Macloon & others, 101 Mass. 1, 20 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Criqui
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.