Canada v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently February 2005
10 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 Davis v. Commonwealth · Higgins v. Commonwealth · Crenshaw v. Commonwealth · McElwain v. Commonwealth · Shelby 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he evidence to establish the conspiracy must be found either in things said, done, or written by the one on trial or in parts of the evidence other than that coming directly or indirectly from the alleged co-conspirators of the party on trial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If a conspiracy be shown to exist, then everything said, done, or written by one of them during the existence of the conspiracy and in the execution or furtherance of the common purpose is admissible in evidence against the others even when they are not present.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Commonwealth v. King
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.