Rand v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1917
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently March 2014 · most notably 58 Cal. 2d 732 - People v. Marsh (1962), Simmons v. State (1933)
3 federal appellate · 33 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 Smith v. Commonwealth · Sanders v. Commonwealth · People v. Husband
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To constitute the crime of obtaining money or property by false pretenses, the following things must appear: (1) A false pretense; (2) the false pretense must be made by the defendant, or by some one, whom he has induced to make it; (3) the defendant must have had knowledge of the falsity of the statement, token, or pretense when he made it; (4) the person defrauded must have relied upon the pretense and been induced thereby to part with his property or money; (5) the property or money must have been obtained by the defendant or by some one in his behalf; (6) the defendant must have had an intent to defraud; (7) and, lastly, an actual defrauding must have resulted. * * ⅜»”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“whatever tends to show good faith on the part of appellant or want of good faith upon his part is competent evidence to go to the jury.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.