Commonwealth v. McCall’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently June 1962
9 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 Commonwealth v. Boyd
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This section creates a new and distinct offense, the commission of which is accomplished by .giving a cheek uiith the intent to defraud .on a bank in which the maker knows he has not sufficient funds to pay the check; and it is not essential to constitute an offense under 'this section that any false representation, statement, or pretense should be made by the maker of the check concerning the state of Ms account in the bank, on which the check is given, or in connection with the transaction. No questions need be asked by the person to whom the check is given or information volunteered by the person giving the check. The mere giving of such a check with the intent to defraud will constitute the offense, and the intent to defraud will be present whenever money, property, or other thing of value is parted with by the person to whom the cheek is given.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore · State v. Morris““Provided, however, that if the person who makes, issues, utters or delivers any such check, draft, or order, shall pay the same within twenty days from the time he receives actual notice, verbal or written, of the dishonor of such check, draft or order, he shall not be prosecuted under this section, and any prosecution that may have been instituted within the time above mentioned, shall, if payment of said check be made as aforesaid, be dismissed at the cost of the defendant. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“But the maker of the check cannot save himself from the penalty of the statute by returning property received on the faith of it, or any property or other thing of value except money, in the full amount of the check.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. State v. Moore
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.