Bare v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2014
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 Pond v. People · Lee v. State · Cook v. State · People v. Taylor · State v. Shaw
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a space necessary and convenient, habitually used for family purposes and the carrying on of domestic employment: the yard, garden, or field which is near to and used in connection with the dwelling.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“], except such as is found in the common and statute law referring to arson, burglary and to homicide and assault cases, where the prisoner claims to have committed the alleged crime in self defense after having retreated to his castle, or his home. As construed by the courts from the earliest to the latest times, the words”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“usually occupied for the purposes of the dwelling.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Giles v. Com.
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.