Commonwealth v. Brown’s Empirical Analysis
1876
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently January 1986 · most notably Commonwealth v. Trefethen (1892), Commonwealth v. Bellino (1947)
2 federal appellate · 67 state decisions — followed in 17 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. Sturtivant · Clinton v. Englebrecht · Gut v. The State · Thomson v. Lee County · Foster v. President of the Essex Bank
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 69 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The objection that the indictment is bad because more than one offense is joined in it cannot be sustained. It is settled in this commonwealth that several offenses may be charged in the same indictment when they are of the same general nature, and when the mode of trial and the nature of the punishment are the same. Carlton v. Commonwealth, 5 Metc. 532 ; Booth v. Commonwealth, 5 Metc. 535 ; Josslyn v. Commonwealth, 6 Metc. 236 ; Commonwealth v. Costello, 120 Mass. 358 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gutenkunst v. State
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.