Bailey v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
November 2009
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on State v. Benton · Wooden v. Commonwealth · Delawder v. Commonwealth · Collins v. Commonwealth · Dusenbery 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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who effects a criminal act through an innocent or unwitting agent is a principal in the first degree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McAlevy v. Com.
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.