Hayden v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1910
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently March 1979 · most notably Johnston v. Commonwealth (1916), United States v. Walker (1963)
5 federal appellate · 49 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 Seavy v. Dearborn · Merriweather v. Commonwealth · Kaelin v. Commonwealth · Meaux v. Meaux · Northern Bank v. Farmers' Nat. Bank
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * in a separate trial of one of several persons charged with murder, evidence of statements made by the others while in custody, and in the presence of the defendant, to. which he made no response, are not admissible as to the defendant’s guilt.” Citing the Merriwether case, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lett v. Commonwealth
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.