Commonwealth v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 83 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 88 later decisions — most recently January 2023 · most notably People v. . Molineux (1901), People v. . Sharp (1887)
5 federal appellate · 83 state decisions — followed in 19 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 State v. Lapage · Thayer v. Thayer · Jordan v. Osgood · Commonwealth v. Abbott · Commonwealth v. McCarthy
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 88 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is not in general competent to show a distinct crime commit!,ed by the defendant for the purpose of proving that he is guilty of the crime charged. But as in all crimes, except a few statutory offenses, a criminal intent; is necessary to be proved, evidence which legitimately bears upon this may bo put in, even if it be derived from circumstances which also show the commission of another offense.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““At the trial of an indictment, under the Gen. Sts. e. 161, § 54, for obtaining the property of another by false pretenses in the sale of a horse, evidence of similar pretenses made by the defendant in sales to other persons a short time previously to the sale in question is inadmissible for the purpose of showing the intent with which the defendant made the sale of the horse.””
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.