Commonwealth v. O'Brien’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
2 district · 82 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Beneficial Finance Company (1971), Commonwealth v. Fancy (1965)
2 district · 82 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. Tucker · Commonwealth v. Russ · Commonwealth v. Cooper · Smith v. First National Bank · 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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any artifice whereby he who practices it gains, or attempts to gain, some undue advantage to himself, or to work some wrong or do some injury to another”
2 later decisions 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.