Commonwealth v. Carelli’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently December 1977 · most notably Commonwealth v. Redline (1958), Commonwealth v. Kravitz (1960)
31 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. Spardute · Commonwealth v. Brown · Commonwealth v. Bell · Beardslee v. Columbia Township · Commonwealth v. Racco
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * Objections made to the admission of photographs of the saloon where the murder was perpetrated, on the ground that they were taken nearly a month after the date of the crime, must necessarily fall, because they were taken when the defendant and his fellow criminals were themselves showing how the crime was committed, in order that the photographer should get an exact reproduction of the saloon, and of the location of the parties in it, at the date of the murder. * * * ” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Palmer
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.