Commonwealth v. Albert’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently October 1977 · most notably Commonwealth v. Stasiun (1965), Commonwealth v. Beal (1943)
27 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 Rosenfield v. United States Trust Co. · Commonwealth v. O'Brien · Commonwealth v. Snow · Dolan v. Commonwealth · Edge Moor Bridge Works v. County of Bristol
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A promise to do an act that would result in a pecuniary gain to the defendant would undoubtedly come within the scope of the statute. . . . It is enough if a reward or personal advantage will accrue to the officer for the performance of the act and that he considers the value of that which he will receive so highly as to permit it to influence his official conduct. . . . Of course, if all the officer intended from the performance of the act was the self-satisfaction arising from the fact that he is empowered to command obedience or the sentiment that comes from conferring a kindness upon another, then he would not receive anything to which the law would attach value . . ."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“It could properly be found upon the evidence together with the inferences, which need not be necessary or unescapable so long as they were reasonable and warranted, that it had been proved beyond a reasonable doubt,”
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.