Commonwealth v. Barney’s Empirical Analysis
1903
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently June 1999 · most notably Harris v. Shanahan (1963), State v. Prince (1948)
77 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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he language of the act, including its title, the history of its enactment, and the state of the law already in existence bearing on the subject, are all properly considered by the courts in arriving at the legislative intention, because the Legislature must have resorted to the same means to arrive at its purpose.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Generally an indictment for a statutory offense is sufficient if it follows the Avords of the statute. But this is only where the words used in the statute are sufficient to describe every fact essential to constitute the offense. ’ ’”
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.