Commonwealth v. Harrington’s Empirical Analysis
1880
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently July 2019 · most notably Apprendi v. New Jersey (2000), Evans v. State (1898)
2 federal appellate · 40 state decisions — followed in 15 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.
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it shall not be necessary in complaints under the act to allege such previous convictions.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“is convicted of the offence of drunkenness, and it is proved that he has been convicted of a like offence twice before within the next preceding twelve months, he may be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment in any place now provided by law for common drunkards, for a term not exceeding one year.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the offence ... is not fully and substantially described to the defendant, if the complaint fails to set forth the former convictions which are essential features of it”
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.