Commonwealth v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably 421 Pa. Super. 284 - Ottavio v. Fibreboard Corp. (1992), Zicarelli v. Dietz (1980)
5 federal appellate · 24 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 Smith v. Times Publishing Co. · Commonwealth v. Costley · State v. Lowe · Ex parte McNeeley · State v. Montgomery
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““§524. Offenses near county fines. “In order to obviate the difficulty of proof as to all offenses committed near the boundaries of counties, in any indictment for felony or misdemeanor committed on the boundary or boundaries of two or more counties, or within the distance of five hundred yards of any such boundary or boundaries, it shall be sufficient to allege that such felony or misdemeanor was committed in any of the said counties; and every such felony or misdemeanor shall and may be inquired of, tried, determined and punished in the county, within which the same shall be so alleged to have been committed, in the same manner as if it had been actually committed therein.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“By the common law all offenses were inquired into and tried in the county where they were committed, and the visne or neighborhood from which a sheriff was required to return a panel of jurors was interpreted as meaning county. 4 Blackstone, 350. But Parliament could have changed or made exceptions to this common-law rule, and the Legislatures of the different states can do likewise, in the absence of constitutional limitations upon them.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Zicarelli v. Dietz
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.