Commonwealth v. Fleckner’s Empirical Analysis
1896
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently December 1969 · most notably Commonwealth v. Millen (1935), Commonwealth v. Dowe (1943)
4 federal appellate · 32 state decisions — followed in 18 states
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. Clifford · Commonwealth v. Burke · Commonwealth v. Baker
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We should be slow to suppose that the Legislature meant to take away the right to undo the disgrace and legal discredit of a conviction * * * merely because a wrongfully convicted person has paid his fine or served his term. The fact that no indemnity is provided by this act is far from enough to lead us to that conclusion. Of course, the payment of the fine in accordance with the sentence was not a consent to the sentence, but a payment under duress.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It is not necessary to prove that the place is used mainly for that purpose, (Dispensing intoxicating liquor to its members or others,) citing Commonwealth v. Burke, 114. Mass. 261.” (p. 15.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Poggmeyer“We should be slow to suppose that the Legislature meant to take away the right to undo the disgrace and legal discredit of a conviction . . . merely because a wrongly convicted person”
1 later decision 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.