Commonwealth v. Mannos’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2015 · most notably Commonwealth v. De Christoforo (1971), Commonwealth v. Edwards (2005)
5 federal appellate · 2 district · 48 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 United States v. Borden Co. · Logan v. United States · Hyde v. United States · United States v. William Rabinowich · United States v. Kissel
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who aids and assists another person to commit an offence which only such other person can commit may be equally guilty with the latter as a principal or as an accessory before the fact, depending upon the evidence showing his relation to the actual commission of the crime. ... In this Commonwealth, the distinction between guilt as a principal and guilt as an accessory before the fact has always been recognized”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a gift or gratuity or a promise to make a gift or to do an act beneficial to him, under an agreement or with an understanding that his vote, opinion or judgment shall be given in any particular manner, or upon a particular side of any question, cause or proceeding, which is or may be by law brought before him in his official capacity.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“in arranging for the payment of bribes from the architects and engineers, in making the collections from them, and in turning what was collected over to Lyons, Mannos personally participated in every essential step and must be considered as a principal”
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.