Commonwealth v. McGarvey’s Empirical Analysis
1914
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently March 1975 · most notably Music v. Commonwealth (1919), Hall v. Commonwealth (1925)
50 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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A conviction can not be had upon the testimony of an accomplice unless corroborated by other evidence tending to connect the defendant with the commission of. the offense; and the corroboration is not sufficient if it merely show that the offense was committed, and the circumstances thereof. ’ ’”
3 later decisions 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.