Commonwealth v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 1988 · most notably Commonwealth v. Musto (1943), Commonwealth v. Rolan (1988)
30 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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In drawing an indictment under the statute it is well to use its language, but as ‘feloniously’ includes ‘maliciously’ the substitution of the former for the latter is not fatal to the count in which it appears.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Elliott v. State
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.