Commonwealth v. Perry’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently August 2012 · most notably Commonwealth v. Mahdi (1983), Commonwealth v. Graziano (1975)
34 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 Commonwealth v. Richmond · Commonwealth v. Cabot · Commonwealth v. Sinclair · Commonwealth v. Bishop · London v. Bay State Street Railway Co.
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Language ought not to be permitted which is calculated by ... appeals to prejudice, to sweep jurors beyond a fair and calm consideration of the evidence.”
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.