Commonwealth v. Boris’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently December 2017 · most notably Commonwealth v. Haas (1977), Commonwealth v. Sandler (1975)
3 federal appellate · 65 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. Sturtivant · Commonwealth v. Russ · Commonwealth v. Millen · Thornhill v. Carpenter-Morton Co. · Commonwealth v. Brown
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ . . The infraction of this statute is not proved by negligence nor by failure to exercise as much intelligence as the ordinarily prudent man. The statute does not punish one too dull to realize that the goods which he bought honestly and in good faith had been stolen. The knowledge or belief of the defendant must be personal to him and our statute furnishes no substitute or equivalent.” Commonwealth v. Boris, 317 Mass. 309 , 58 N.E.2d 8, 12 (1944).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. State v. Beale“A man's intention or knowledge is a matter of fact which ordinarily cannot be proved by direct evidence and resort frequently must be had to proof by inference”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“knowing it tq have been stolen or embezzled”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. People v. Ellison
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.