Berry v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently February 1953 · most notably Jordan v. Commonwealth (1918), Hoskins v. Commonwealth (1920)
27 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.
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The defendant is not guilty unless Mildred Wilcox was at the time complained of and had been for a reasonable time theretofore a woman of chaste conduct. Though there had been formerly unchastity on her part, this does not exonerate the defendant if for a reasonable time before the acts complained of she had been leading a virtuous life.”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bush 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.