Commonwealth v. Green’s Empirical Analysis
1889
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably Edwin Hale v. William Henkel (1906), Gaither v. United States (1969)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 85 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 Rowand v. Commonwealth · McCullough v. Commonwealth · Gordon v. Commonwealth
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is plain that the exigency of this case did not require, or even appear to require this extraordinary exercise of power, on the part of the district attorney. There was no emergency, no demand of haste, no effort to escape, not even any appearance of an escape; there was no public good to be subserved, indeed there was absolutely nothing to call for this unusual method of procedure, and it is not pretended there was.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Whilst this is the usual method pursued in criminal procedure, there are certain exceptions or extraordinary modes of preferring criminal charges, well recognized in practice. These extraordinary modes of criminal procedure are very well defined and set forth in the footnotes of Wharton’s Criminal Law at page 458.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Criminal courts of their own motion call the attention of grand juries to and direct the investigation of matters of general public import, which, from their nature and operation in the entire community, justify such intervention.”
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.