Swift v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 2003
14 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 Sorrells v. United States · Malouf v. City of Roanoke · Gravely v. Deeds · Falden v. Commonwealth · Ossen 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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is elementary that the issuance of a warrant or the return of an indictment by a grand jury is not evidence of the guilt of the accused.”). 6 . The Commonwealth contends that Crowder waived this argument under Rule 5A:18 because he did not specifically object that the Commonwealth”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(e)ntrapment is the conception and planning of an offense by an officer, and his procurement of its commission by one who would not have perpetrated it except for the trickery, persuasion, or fraud of the officer.” 287 U.S. at p. 454 .”
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.