Fine v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1942
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 63 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably United States v. Jerry (1973), Commonwealth v. Ellison (1978)
5 federal appellate · 56 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Peterson v. Hopson · Commonwealth v. Dascalakis · Spiegel v. Beacon Participations, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Green · Karrick v. Wetmore
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 63 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]entence is final judgment in a criminal case, and that is the end of the case, apart from statutory provisions [and common law exceptions], so far as concerns the usual and ordinary control of the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“power to rehear and redecide a motion for new trial that has been either denied or granted”
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.