Commonwealth v. Este’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 1965
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 Commonwealth v. Jackson · Commonwealth v. Choate · Commonwealth v. Mason · Commonwealth v. Bradford
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that the payment was a means of embezzling othc-r money in the future, or covered up an embezzlement of other money in the past, would not make it an embezzlement of the money paid. Neither 'would the fact that he represented it to the town (not to the payee) as the payment of other town money; that is, as a payment from his balance on hand and not from the notes. Embezzlement retains so much of the character of larceny that it is essential to the commission of the crime that the owner should be deprived of the property embezzled, by an adverse holding or use.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Bernstein
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.