Commonwealth v. Kaplan’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Opinion of the Justices to the Senate & the House of Representatives (1925), Commonwealth v. Richards (1973)
25 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 Palmer Savings Bank v. Insurance Co. of North America · Commonwealth v. Homer · Commonwealth v. Farmer · Commonwealth v. Lowrey · Commonwealth v. Flagg
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the practical administration of justice the presiding judge, especially in a criminal case, must be given a broad discretion as to the extent and scope of legitimate cross-examination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. The People v. Miller
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.