Bradley v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently October 1968 · most notably Bradley v. Commonwealth (1924), Combs v. Commonwealth (1928)
45 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 Shelton v. Commonwealth · Curtis v. Commonwealth · Wheeler v. Commonwealth · Greer v. Commonwealth · Mitchell 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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In order to constitute one an aider or abetter in the commission of a crime he must be actually or constructively present at the time of .its commission and participate in some way in. the act committed. It is not essential that there should be a prearrangement or mutual understanding or concert of action, but in the absence of these it is essential that the one so charged should in some way either by overt act or by expression or advocacy or sympathy encourage the principal in his unlawful' acts.””
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.