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Commonwealth v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

1908

Citation profile

64
cited by 64 later decisions
5
states following
October 2013
most recently cited

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 2013 · most notably Commonwealth v. Welosky (1931), Commonwealth v. Madeiros (1926)

3 federal appellate · 2 district · 59 state decisions

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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. Brown · Commonwealth v. Costello · Brady v. Finn · Commonwealth v. Campbell · Commonwealth v. McCabe

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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “other circumstances appearing in evidence”
    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.