Commonwealth v. Tilley’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2014 · most notably Browder v. United States (1941), Commonwealth v. Conroy (1956)
5 federal appellate · 35 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. Welosky · Charles I. Hosmer, Inc. v. Commonwealth · Commonwealth v. Sacco · Commonwealth v. Johnson · Doherty v. Inhabitants of Ayer
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The object of a statute may be so general and its language so broad as to reach conditions fairly coming within its intent and sweep although such conditions did not come into existence until years after its enactment.”
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.