Commonwealth v. Cavalier’s Empirical Analysis
1925
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably Commonwealth v. Green (1959), Commonwealth v. Davis (1976)
2 federal appellate · 57 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. Eagan · Commonwealth v. Mosler · Commonwealth v. Wireback · Commonwealth v. Calhoun
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . at common law, a child under seven years is conclusively presumed incapable of crime . . . Between seven and fourteen, the law also deems the child incapable, but only prima facie so; and evidence may be received to show a criminal capacity . . . Over fourteen, infants, like all other persons, are prima facie capable; and he who would set up their incapacity must prove it.” Bishop on Criminal Law, 9th ed. 1923, vol. 1, sec. 368.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re Clifford
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.