Commonwealth v. Cost’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2004
20 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 Miranda v. State of Arizona Vignera · Wong Sun v. United States · California v. Curry · Simuel v. United States · First National City Bank v. Banco Nacional de Cuba
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is guilty of burglary if he enters a building or occupied structure, or separately secured or occupied portion thereof, with intent to commit a crime therein, unless the premises are at the time open to the public or the actor is licensed or privileged to enter.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“This [change] . . . gets back to the original definition of burglary, which was the breaking and entry of a home at night. The idea that it was an uninvited entry into a residence made it a serious offense.”
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.