Bailey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 1977
9 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 People v. McKinney · Travis 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It (the bill of particulars) need not specify exact dates, nor with absolute precision such other circumstances as might hamper the Commonwealth in presenting its case; nor should it be so loose as to constitute a dragnet in which forgotten, unsuspected acts might be brought to the surface, surprising the accused, and operating as a practical matter as unjustly as the most indefinite charge could. The accused should be put fairly upon notice. The Commonwealth should have reasonable latitude.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““If an indictment contains sufficient to stand-the test of a demurrer as to all facts constituting a complete offense.-other charges which are not sufficiently pleaded to stand 'alone may be disregarded as surplusage.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.