Commonwealth v. Collins’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
May 1969
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Ray v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Sullivan · Catron 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Only a question as to the sufficiency of the evidence is involved, and no useful service would be rendered by a determination of that issue by this court. The defendant has been acquitted, and his rights cannot be affected. It is improbable that similar facts will ever appear in any future case, and any decision rendered would be of no benefit to the parties involved, the trial court or the legal profession generally.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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