Commonwealth v. Sankey’s Empirical Analysis
1853
Citation profile
2 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 2017
2 district · 5 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 Putnam v. Sullivan
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Forgery is the fraudulent making or altering of a writing to the prejudice of another’s right. ... If every trick, or false pretence, or fraudulent act by. which a person is induced to put his name to a paper which he would not otherwise have signed, is to be called a forgery, where shall we stop, and what shall be the rule? ... [F]rauds perpetrated for the purpose of getting papers signed [are not forgeries].”
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.