McHone v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Frye v. Commonwealth (1986), Jones v. Cunningham (1963)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 Mullins v. Sanders · Winston v. Commonwealth · Harbison v. Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. · Sands & Co. v. Norvell · Hall v. Commonwealth
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.
““The conviction of a defendant does not lack due process of law merely because the Commonwealth’s officer has failed to perform his legal duty in dealing with him after his arrest. # * His [the officer’s] wrongful act should not deprive the Commonwealth of its right to enforce its penal laws unless it is made reasonably clear that such wrongful act has in fact invaded the defendant’s constitutional rights and deprived him of evidence material to his defense which he would otherwise have obtained.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“What is reasonable promptness [in bringing an accused before a judicial officer] is necessarily a question of fact, depending on the circumstances of each case . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“does not necessarily invalidate his subsequent conviction.”
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.