Commonwealth v. Francis’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1992
3 federal appellate · 15 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. Horn · Commonwealth v. Neff · Commonwealth v. Friedman · Commonwealth v. Drew · 173 Pa. Super. 285 - Commonwealth v. Hall
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although there was some margin of dispute as to the criminal intent of appellant, an element of the case, the jury has resolved that issue against appellant. . Appellant was an agent and employee of the City of Philadelphia, he took the gifts aforementioned, he did favors . . . and he omitted doing acts required of him in the protection and furtherance of his employer’s interests. It was for the jury to determine whether the favors shown and the acts omitted were induced by these gifts.' /”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]lthough we have recognized that the crimes of common law extortion and bribery may coincide at times, . . . it is generally held that they are mutually exclusive crimes”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the extraction of money or other things of value under a threat of using the power of one's office may constitute extortion”
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.