Commonwealth v. Bloomberg’s Empirical Analysis
1939
Citation profile
2 district · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 46 Ill. 2d 348 - The People v. Hairston (1970), Commonwealth v. French (1970)
2 district · 50 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. Jordan · Commonwealth v. DiStasio · Decatur v. Auditor of Peabody · Commonwealth v. Snell · Commonwealth v. Dow
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“As there is no express repeal, it is contended that there is a repeal by implication. Such repeals have never been favored by our law. Unless the prior statute is so repugnant to and inconsistent with the later enactment that both cannot stand, then the former is not deemed to have been repealed. Commonwealth v. Flannelly, 15 Gray 195 [1860]. Eaton, Crane & Pike Co. v. Commonwealth, 237 Mass. 523, 530 [1921]. Cohen v. Price, 273 Mass. 303, 309 [1930]. Burick v. Boston Elevated Railway, 293 Mass. 431 [1936].”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It ... cannot be held that a conspirator is as matter of law an aider or abettor in the perpetration of the crimes whose commission he has agreed with others to accomplish.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.