Commonwealth v. MARMON’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 1994
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 Matson v. Margiotti · Commonwealth v. Bonomo · Commonwealth v. Kilgallen · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Minerd v. Margiotti · Commonwealth v. Dessus
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Whoever shall . . . give or make any promise or agreement for the payment . . . of any money . . . in order to obtain or influence the vote, opinion, verdict, award, judgment, decree, or behavior of . . . any officer . . . of this Commonwealth, or of any political subdivision thereof . . . in any . . . matter or thing whatsoever, depending or which shall depend before him or them, is guilty of bribery.”
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.